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* Mean, median, sum, minimum, maximum (in days) per location and/or time frame | * Mean, median, sum, minimum, maximum (in days) per location and/or time frame | ||
* N is the number of patient's hospitalizations | * N is the number of patient's hospitalizations | ||
==SAS Program== | ==SAS Program== |
Revision as of 14:16, 2021 December 14
LENGTH OF STAY in all medicine wards per HOSPITAL ADMISSION
Indicators | |
Indicator: | LOS Medicine per hospital admission |
Created/Raw: | Created |
Program: | Medicine |
Start Date: | |
End Date: | |
Reports: | Directors Quarterly and Annual Report (Medicine) |
Usually used in aggregate form as "per location" and/or "per timeframe", e.g. month/quarter/year x Ward/Unit x Hospital.
Significance
Length of stay (LOS) is influenced by many factors, but safe and effective care should result in shorter length of stay.
Start Dates
- Oct 2003 to Sept 2020 - each record is per ward stay. A hospital stay may have one or more individual ward stay (or records).
- Starting Oct 2020- each record is a continuous stay in any locations under Medicine service (or one Medicine episode) - see Definition of a Medicine Laptop Admission. If the patient is transferred to another service and comes back to Medicine service, this is a new record. A hospital stay may have one or more Medicine episodes.
Sampling Plan / Procedure
Inclusion Criteria
All Medicine admissions - see Definition of a Medicine Laptop Admission
Exclusion Criteria
None
Frequency
- Reported when patient had been discharged out of Medicine.
- Monthly, quarterly, year based on discharged date of Dispo DtTm
Definition and Derivation
- Calculate the LOS for each record - refer to LOS Per Record
- Per patient, identify the records having the same Visit Admit DtTm. This implies same hospital stay or hospitalization.
- Per patient per hospitalization, sum up all the LOS Per Record
- It is possible that the same patient may have one or more hospitalization within the same time frame.
Data Source
- For dates refer to LOS Per Record
- For hospitalization date - use Visit Admit DtTm
- For patient identifier - use either Person ID, Chart, PHIN
Reported as
- Mean, median, sum, minimum, maximum (in days) per location and/or time frame
- N is the number of patient's hospitalizations
SAS Program
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Report Users
Internal Medicine Directors and Ward Managers
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