Table 1.
ALL | Single admission | Multiple admission (Non-Fragmented) |
Fragmented | |
---|---|---|---|---|
# of Admissions | 334,828 | 177,775 (53.1 %) | 137,614 (41.1 %) | 19,439 (5.8 %) |
# of Patients | 228,151 | 177,775 (77.9 %) | 45,700 (20.0 %) | 4,676 (2.0 %) |
Avg. # of Admissions | 1.47 | 1.00 | 3.01 | 4.16 |
Avg. LOSa (days) | 5.02 | 4.37 | 5.77 | 5.58 |
Standard Deviation LOS | 8.16 | 7.90 | 8.42 | 8.09 |
First Quartile LOS | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Median LOS | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Fourth Quartile LOS | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
Total Hospital Daysa | 1,674,213 | 774,610 (46.3 %) | 792,110 (47.3 %) | 107,493 (6.4 %) |
Some admissions with uncertain discharge dates were removed from the calculations of LOS and hospital days. These represented 0.37 % of admissions