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Bed Count
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Number of available hospital inpatient beds on a given day
• For Inpatient use/not out patient • Doesn’t matter if occupied or vacant • set up for normal use: set up, staffed, equipped • Hospital level or patient care unit level |
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Bed Count Days
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unit of measure denoting the presence of one inpatient bed set up and staffed for use in a 24 hr period
Total bed count days- sum of inpatient bed count days for e/ of the days in a specific period of time |
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Bed Occupancy Ratio/Percentage
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Proportion of beds occupied defined as the ratio of inpatient service days to bed count days in a specific period of time
Total inpatient service days in a period of time Total bed count days in a period of time x number of people receiving service by the numbers of beds you have |
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LOS
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Length of Stay:number of calendar days a patient stays in a hospital from the time of admission to the time of discharge
• Subtract admission date from discharge date when patient is admitted and discharged in the same month • count admission date-but not duration date • For longer stays (beyond month) days must be added to calculate LOS |
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Total LOS
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Sum of the days a stay of any group of inpatients discharge during a specific period of time
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Average LOS
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avg number of days that inpatient discharged during a specific period of time
Stayed in the total length of stay hospital total discharges (includes deaths) |
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Revenue
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defined as an increase in organization’s assets
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Assets/Hospital Assets
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An object (property or money, for eg) a right (to royalties, for eg) or a claim (a title to debt, for eg) that it’s owners consider to be of benefit to them
Hospital assets include property, equipment, investments, accounts receivables (claims to money owed to hospital) |
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Gross Patient Revenue
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revenue from services rendered to patients
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Net Patient Revenue
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gross patient revenue-contractual adjustments and charity care
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Contractual adjustments
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due to agreements w/ third party providers, hospital charges are discounted
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Net Total revenue
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net revenue + all other revenue
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Expense
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using up of an asset (depreciation) or the cost of providing services/making a product during an accounting period
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Net income
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Revenue- expenses
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FTE/calc
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shows size of workforce
Total hrs worked by all employees in a given time period Number hours worked in the time period |
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Public Health
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literally health of the public
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How to determine value of PH
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Commonly measured in terms of lives saved, diseases prevented and money
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Ratio
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expresses relationship between one quantity to another
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Rate
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ratio w/ a specific measure in time as part of the denominator
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Crude Rate Death/Calc
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Measure of actual/observed mortality in a given population
applies to population w/o a consideration of characteristics Total deaths during time period X 10^n= deaths per 10^n estimated mid-interval population |
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Disease Specific Death Rates
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Number of deaths attributed to a given disease in a specified population expressed as a proportion
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Fetal Death Rates
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death in babies before birth
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Infant Death Rate
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deaths in children younger than 1
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Incidence
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the number of new cases occurring during a specific period in time
Total number of new cases X by base Total population at risk |
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Prevalence
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number of rate of cases at a specific point/period of time
Total number of new/pre-existing cases during given time x base total population |
