Hospital statistics

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Inpatient:
Is a patient who has been formally
admitted to the hospital and to whom
room, bed and continuous nursing
services is provided in an area of the
hospital where patients generally
stay at least overnight.

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1- Inpatient census:
Indicates the number of inpatients
presented in the hospital at any
given time.

2- Bed count days:

is a unit of measurement denoting the
presence of inpatient bed (either
occupied or vacant) set up and staffed
for use in a one-24-hr period.
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3- Total bed count days:
Is the sum of inpatients bed count
days in the period under consideration.

Example:
Suppose:
1- The total number of beds available
at a certain hospital is 50 beds.
2- Month of Shawwal = 30 days

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The number of total beds available
during month of Shawwal is:
50 x 30 = 1500 bed counts.

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4 - Discharges:
Is a termination of hospitalization,
whether alive or dead. Deaths are
considered discharges and they are
included in the total discharges.

A fetus that was not alive at the time

of delivery was never a patient and is
not included in inpatient hospital
statistic.
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5- Length of stay:
Number of calendar days from
admission to discharge. To compute a
patient's length of stay from admission
to discharge the date of admission is
subtracted from the date of discharge.

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For example:
1- if a patient was admitted on Safar
25th and discharged Safar 28, his
length of stay is (28 – 25) = 3 days.
2- If a patient is admitted and
discharged on the same day, his
length of stay is one day.

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Example1:
The following data were obtained
from the records of KKU hospital in
1420 (Safar month = 30 days); usually
is calculated for one year:

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1- Total number of inpatients
= 1869
2- Total number discharged
= 1691
3- Length of stay = 12785
4 – Total number of beds = 500

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Calculate:
•Average daily inpatient census:
is the average number of inpatients
present each day for a given period of
time.

Total number of inpatients in month of Safar

Total number of days in Safar

= 1869/ 30 = 62 patients
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2-Average daily discharged census:

Total number discharged

number of days in Safar

= 1691/30 = 56 patients

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3- Average length of stay

Total
= length of stay during Safar
Total discharged during Safar

= 12785/ 1691 = 8 days

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Bed turnover rate:
The number of times a bed, on average,
change occupants during a given period
of time.
Total number of discharge in Safar
= Total number of beds

= 1691/ 500 = 3

A bed changed 3 occupants, on

average, during Safar
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5- Bed turnover interval:
period where a bed is unoccupied
between patients.
=
(number of beds) x (number of days in Safar) – length of stay

Number of discharged patients during the month

= ((500) x (30) – 12785)/1691 ) = 1.3

The interval between one occupant

and the next is 1 day.
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6- Bed occupancy rate:
proportion of beds occupied during the
period of interest.
Total length of stay during Safar
(Total
= number of beds) x (# of days in the month)

= (12785) / (500) x (30) = 85.23%

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