Lack of patients? – a hypothesis for understanding discrepancies between hospital resources and productivity

Table 6 Outcome and quality related data at St. Olavs University Hospital during the time period 1995 to 2001.

	1995	1997	1999	2001	Change %
Patients in high risk DRG groups^$	2 629	2 435	2 555	2 548	-3.1
In hospital deaths in these	184	200	238	205	+11.4
Laboratory tests/patient^β	33.4	34.2	32.4	29.2	-12.6
Imaging examinations/patient^δ	3.7	3.2	3.1	3.2	-15.6

^$includes Norwegian DRG's 14, 89–90. 121–122, 127, 210–211, 236
^βincludes all laboratory tests/procedures excluding pathology (data not available) on in-hospital patients.
^δincludes imaging examinations on in-hospital patients.

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