LOS Medicine per hospital admission

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LENGTH OF STAY in all medicine wards per HOSPITAL ADMISSION

Indicators
Indicator: LOS Medicine per hospital admission
Created/Raw: Created
Program: Medicine
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Reports: Directors Quarterly and Annual Report (Medicine)


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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

Reported as

  • Mean, median, sum, minimum, maximum (in days) per location and/or time frame
  • N is the number of patient's hospitalizations

Report Users

Internal Medicine Directors and Ward Managers

SAS Program

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Report Users

Internal Medicine Directors and Ward Managers

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