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Table 7 LOS compliance: effect estimate of process adoption on inpatient beds

From: Is the timing of radiological intervention and treatment day associated with economic outcomes in DRG-financed health care systems: a case study

 

Patient days (PD)

ALOS

Beds

Total patients CH

1′123′995

6.2

 

OFSP3 2012

6’944’354

 

23’852

Required beds by calculation(ALOS*Nbr. of Patients/365)

  

19’026

General bed utilization

  

79.8%

Required emergency beds only (54.8% of the study cases)

  

10′426

Efficiency gains (only on emergency beds and based on total weekend effect)

 

−1.37

2’312

Required beds incl. Efficiency

 

4.83

16’714

Bed utilization (incl. efficiency gains only on emergency beds)

  

70.1%

  1. Total Patient Days = ALOS * PD The number of beds is extracted from the OFSP statistics