Table 1.

Differences between bimonthly patient-days in individual hospice wards during 2003 and those at the same periods in 2002

Hospice	March/April	May/June	July/August	September/October
A	-5%	-98%	-59%	-31%
B	-8%	-94%	-39%	-7%
C	19%	-64%	-20%	-21%
D	-22%	-57%	-21%	-27%
E	-8%	-50%	-9%	3%
F	20%	-45%	2%	8%
G	-3%	-44%	-25%	-9%
H	0%	-44%	0%	-2%
I	-11%	-41%	-39%	-37%
J	7%	-15%	20%	-13%
K	2%	-5%	5%	27%
L	-18%	0%	-4%	1%
M	-11%	5%	-1%	9%
N	-10%	6%	7%	-4%
O	32%	15%	51%	32%
Total	-3%	-46%	-13%	-4%

*Difference = ((patient-days in two months of 2003) – (patient-days in two months of 2002))/(patient-days in two months of 2002).