Hospital Statistics as a Tool for Obtaining Data Necessary in the Healthcare Entity Management Process

• Authors: Aleksandra Sierocka , Bożena Woźniak , Petre Iltchev , Michał Marczak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Statistical methods used by healthcare entities enable the collection of various information about the structure and characteristics of treated patients. They are an important source of knowledge, and form a database that plays an important role in entity management theory. In the presented study, we analysed the hospital stays of patients treated in all hospital wards of the 3rd City Hospital in Łodź during 2012. The following, in particular, were taken into account: admittance procedure, discharge procedure, age and sex of hospitalised persons. Patients in over 55% of cases were admitted using the sud- den admittance procedure. At the same time, over 3/4 of the stays ended with a referral for further treatment in ambulatory conditions, and death occurred in approx. 5% of hospitalisations. By comparing the discharge procedures, the percentage of deaths in the Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Wards can be seen clearly (more than 70%). Internal wards are next in turn (10.6 and 16.6%). The biggest differences in the length of hospitalisation between the studied institution and the NFZ data (which are averaged values from all medical entities in Poland) concern the E77, A49, A48, A87, A33, D18, E16, E61 and G37 groups.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 169-177

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

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Aleksandra Sierocka

• K. Jonscher Hospital in Lodz, Poland

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Bożena Woźniak

• K. Jonscher Hospital in Lodz, Poland

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Petre Iltchev

• Health Care Policy Department, Medical University in Lodz, Poland

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Michał Marczak

• Health Care Policy Department, Medical University in Lodz, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/slgr-2013-0036