LOS Per Record
This will show the basic definition of Length of stay.
- refers as the Length of Stay (LOS) per record
- Before Oct 1, 2020 - a record is defined as an admission in specific Internal Medicine ward or Critical Care Unit as shown in Site_and_Location_table
- Starting Oct1, 2020 - a record for Critical Care, see Definition of a Critical Care Laptop Admission and a record for Internal Medicine, see Definition of a Medicine Laptop Admission.
- LOS is simply calculated as the difference between the End Date/Time and Start Date/Time of stay.
- Start Date and time is defined by either of these fields:
- Accept DtTm
- Arrive DtTm
- first Service Start DtTm, see Service_tmp_entry and is the same as the Accept DtTm
- End Date and time is defined by the Dispo DtTm
- Start Date and time is defined by either of these fields:
For example:
- Start Date/Time: 20 May 2008 11:30
- End Date/Time: 21 May 2008 17:45
- LOS_Record = 1.260 days
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