Term
|
Definition
| Lead agency responsible for protecting health of US |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Unprocessed facts and figures |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| describe what the data show about characteristics of a sample |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| help make guesses about larger group of data from drawing conclusions from smaller group |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| health data recorded by health care providers |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Facility specific; derived from primary sources. IE tumor registry, disease and operation index |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Count of a particular population |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| number of patients present at specific time and particular place |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A primary source of info. Birth, marriage, death, divorce, and fetal deaths |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| number of times something actually happened in relation to number of times something could have happened |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Patient care unit (medicine unit, surgery unit, etc) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| includes the number of patients present on the PCU AND inpatients whoe were admitted after previous census time, and discharged before the next census-taking time |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| unit of measure denoting services received by one inpatient in one 24-hour period |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Synonyms = patient day, inpatient day, bed occupancy day, census day |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| If 20 patients are provided services in one 24-hour period, the number of _______ for that calendar day is 20 |
|
|
Term
| Total Inpatient Service Days |
|
Definition
| sum of all the inpatient service days in a period under consideration (monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or anually) |
|
|
Term
| Calculation of Inpatient Service Days |
|
Definition
| measurement of services received by all inpatients in one 24-hour period |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| transfers in/out of unit. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| admitted and discharged same day |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A concise summary of data. Ie- transfers in/out must be in balance / everyone accounted for |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| average number of inpatients present each day for a given peroid of time |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Total inpatient service days for a period (excluding newborns) / total number of days in the period |
|
|
Term
| Certificate of Need (CON) |
|
Definition
| new facility wants to prove patient care beds needed for area |
|
|
Term
| Bed Count (Inpatient bed count) |
|
Definition
| number of available hospital inpatient beds (both occupied and vacant) on any given day |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Extra beds set up to meet needs during disaster are NOT part of the bed count |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| a unit of measure denoting the presence of one inpatient bed (either occupied or vacant) set up and staffed for use in one 24 hour period |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Maximum number of patient days; Potential days. (Represents max number of possible patient days / every bed being occupied every day) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Proportion of beds occupied, defined as ratio of inpatient service days to bed count days in the period under consideration |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Total inpt service days in a period x 100 / total bed count days in a period (bed count x number of days in the period) |
|
|
Term
| Bed Occupancy Ratio Synonyms |
|
Definition
| percent of occupancy, occupancy rate, occupancy percent, percentage of occupancy, and occupancy ratio |
|
|
Term
| Percentage of Occupancy greater than 100% |
|
Definition
| Can happen during disaster (extra beds set up) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| hospital changes its bed count during a period of time (permanent change). Have to calculate bed count days for number of days of month where hospital had ie-50 beds, compared to number of days had ie-75 beds |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| number of times a bed, on average, changes occupants during a given period of time. Or the average number of admissions per bed per time period |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| number of calendary days a patient stays in hospital |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| evaluates facility's efficiency in providing necessary services in most cost-efficient manner. Goal = eliminate over and underutilization of services |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| days compiled after the patient has been discharged |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| compiled while patient is hospitalized |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| inlucdes deaths and transfers |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| every day patient is in the hospital is counted as a day except the day of discharge |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Determined by subtracting the admission date from the discharge date when the patient is admitted and discharged within the same month. |
|
|
Term
| LOS, discharge days calculation |
|
Definition
| Day of admission is counted in computing the number, but the day of discharge is not counted |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| the sum of the days' stay of any group of inpatients discharged during a specified period of time |
|
|
Term
| Total Length of Stay synonym |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Inpatient Service Days vs. Total Length of Stay |
|
Definition
| Inpt serv days analyze current utilization of hospital. LOS analyze data for groups of discharged patients |
|
|
Term
| Example of when Inpatient Service Days differs from discharge days |
|
Definition
| Example: when patient is in long-term care facility for >365 days. For 1 year summary, Inpt Service Days = 365. Discharge days = 0 |
|
|
Term
| Average Length of Stay (ALOS) |
|
Definition
| average number of days that inpatients discharged during the period under consideration stayed in the hospital |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Total length of stay (discharge days) / Total discharges (including deaths) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Average duration of hospitalization; Average stay |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Determined when patient is not present at the census-taking hour. Physician may give overnight pass, or a weekend pass |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Included when considering discharge days and calculating ALOS (avg length of stay) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Excluded from inpatient service days, inpatient census, and bed occupancy |
|
|
