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Table 2 Discharge counts, health utilization indices and health utilization rates retrieved per HSA

From: Hospital service areas – a new tool for health care planning in Switzerland

		Discharge Counts			Indices			Rates
Lft	HSA	L_out	NL_in	Diff	LI	II	NPF	Pop	Local	L_out	NL_in	Net
1	GE20	2949	4750	1801	0.96	0.93	0.03	188	181	8	13	5
2	VD13	10960	20419	9459	0.79	0.67	0.18	200	159	41	77	35
3	BE09	5545	27814	22269	0.88	0.6	0.47	128	113	15	76	61
4	ZH85	15375	20278	4903	0.52	0.45	0.15	153	80	73	96	23
5	LU01	5959	8994	3035	0.81	0.74	0.1	138	111	27	40	13
51	SG11	4759	283	-4476	0.36	0.9	-0.6	141	50	90	5	-85
52	ZH12	3654	2114	-1540	0.51	0.64	-0.2	148	75	73	42	-31
53	VS31	2740	3013	273	0.6	0.57	0.04	178	106	72	79	7
54	SZ10	2903	662	-2241	0.55	0.84	-0.4	130	71	59	13	-46
55	ZH04	2943	404	-2539	0.52	0.89	-0.4	174	91	83	11	-72
96	GR03	418	169	-249	0.62	0.8	-0.2	163	101	62	25	-37
97	BE67	670	289	-381	0.35	0.56	-0.4	118	42	76	33	-43
98	BE68	379	1832	1453	0.63	0.26	1.42	127	80	47	227	180
99	GR10	324	14	-310	0.55	0.97	-0.4	165	92	74	3	-70
100	GR09	87	176	89	0.65	0.48	0.36	154	100	54	108	55

Legend of variable* abbreviations in Table 2
L_out Local-out discharges
NL_in Nonlocal-in discharges
LI Localization index
II Inflow index
NPF Net patient flow
Net Net rate
* each variable is described in detail in the Methods section of the text

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