For our purposes, LOS (length of stay) is the combined number of days a patient spent on units on which we collect data. It is not the amount of time spent in the hospital as we don't have access to hospital admit/discharge data.
Depending on the type of LOS, the summary statistics namely, Mean, Median, Sum or Total are included in our monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
Those links point to collections of reports which isn't helpful, should be individual reports. And they don't need to be listed here at all if the report pages themself link to this page properly.
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General definition of LOS = difference between the start datetime and end datetime where start datetime and end datetime definitions vary depending on the type of LOS.
For example:
Start Date/Time: 20 May 2008 11:30
End Date/Time: 21 May 2008 17:45
LOS = 1.260 (3 decimal digit accuracy is used for individual patients, 1 digit for averages)
different kinds of LOSs
Dr. Allan Garland and Julie met March 12, 2014 and identifed the different types of LOS currently calculated and reported as well as assigned a name to each one accordingly.
LOS_Record
refers as the Length of Stay (LOS) per record
Before Oct 1, 2020 - a record is defined as an admission in an Internal Medicine ward or Critical Care Unit.
refers as Within Hospital Medicine Ward Cumulative LOS
this is the sum of all Medicine wards' LOS_Record within one Hospital admission per hospital. It is important to determine correctly the different wards the patient stayed within a hospital admission and this is done by using the time gaps between records and/or the locations the patient came from and went to. If a patient stayed in more than one Medicine wards during his hospital admission until he left the hospital, then all his wards' LOS_Record were added.
The summary reports separate those who left the hospital or died and those who went to another service within the hospital.
would this be simply LOS per profile now that we do PatientFollow Project? Or would you have linked together e.g. a med pt prior to ICU/un-collected ward stay and then again after?
refers to the length of continuous stay in one or more ICU on same or different hospitals in the region
First, identify the patient who had tranferred to another ICU/OR/Recovery area on same of different hosp within 48 hours and consider their ICU stays as continuous ICU stay.
Then calculate the difference between the Discharge Date of the last ICU stay and the Admit Date of the First ICU stay.
The summary reports include all patients with continuous ICU stay.
