LOS Medicine per ward stay

Revision as of 21:09, 3 February 2010 by TOstryzniuk (talk | contribs)
INDICATOR: LENGTH OF STAY PER MEDICINE WARD ADMISSION
SIGNIFICANCE: Length of stay (LOS) is influenced by many factors, but safe and effective care should result in shorter length of stay.
DEFINITIONS: Average LOS reported for each ward in the region.
SPECIFICATION:  
Inclusion Criteria: All ward admissions in the Medicine Database (MedTMS). Admissions from Emergency Department are considered a new ward admission when patient is admitted to the service. If transfers occur across wards or another service within the same hospital, this will be reported as 3 individual length of stays in the ward and not one cumulative LOS.
Exclusion Criteria: None
Required Variables (Definition of Terms/) : Ward admit date/time – the date and time the patient is admitted to a ward.
  • Template:Discussion Hi Jules, if this is for Medicine then what is recorded in admit date/time is the really the date/time that pt was "accepted" by the medicine service physician and not when the patient arrived on the ward. I know the story is on the Wiki somewhere. --TOstryzniuk 21:09, 3 February 2010 (CST)
Ward discharge date/time – the date and time the patient was discharge to a ward.
Calculation Procedure: LOS per patient = Ward discharge date/time – Ward admit date/time (expressed in days).
Average LOS Per Ward = average LOS from admissions to a ward where discharge date is between the beginning and the ending of the reporting time.
WHERE & WHEN REPORTED: Quarterly report and Annual report in Fiscal Year of Activity Summary.
PRESCRIBED BY: Dr. Dan Roberts
TARGET: None yet.
COMMENT: