View source for LOS Medicine per hospital admission

{{Reporting Indicators
|description='''[[LOS | Length of stay]] in all medicine wards per [[Site and Location table | HOSPITAL]] ADMISSION'''
|indicator_start_date=2003-10-01
|indicator_name={{PAGENAME}}
|program=Medicine
}}
Usually used in aggregate form as "per location" and/or "per reporting 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 [[:Category: Length of stay | 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 the admission to the Medicine [[Service tmp entry|Service]] ends, ie when there is a [[Dispo DtTm]](Discharge Date)
* 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 reporting 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 site and/or time frame
* N is the number of patient's hospitalizations
* Counts and % of N based on LOS groups (<1,1-5,6-10,11-15-16-20,>20) for a given reporting time frame and/or site

==SAS Program==
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