Hospital Statistics

HOSPITAL STATISTICS, a statistical study of questions concerning the extent and nature of the provision of inpatient bed care to the population and the activities of medical institutions providing this type of care. Hospital statistics in this sense is one of the divisions of the statistics of medical aid to the population, which occupies an independent place in the system of Russian sanitary statistics. The elements of district hospital statistics are: 1. Inpatient patients. Number of inpatient patients: a) in relation to the population and b) to outpatient visits (selection for beds). Age and sex composition of inpatient patients: the proportion of each age group in the total sum of inpatient patients. The ratio of each age group of bed patients: a) to the size of the corresponding group among the population and b) among outpatient patients (age selection for beds). Selection of individual forms of contagious diseases and specially highlighted social and certain chronic diseases. Average daily bed occupancy. Admission of patients, bed occupancy, bed vacancy (idle time), overcrowding in hospital departments by months and seasons. Average duration of patients' stay on a bed by classes of diseases and for each of the most important contagious forms.-2. Distribution of bed patients, men and women, by cumulative distances from the medical institution, indicating for each district the percentage of the population, percentage of selection for beds from the corresponding group of outpatient patients, and the average number of days per patient. The same by age - in detailed and cumulative groups (by districts).-3. Inpatient parturients. Births, stillbirths, miscarriages. Number of hospital births: a) per 100 newborns and b) per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Admission of parturients, bed occupancy, bed vacancy or bed overcrowding (in %) - by months, seasons, and on average for the year, average duration of stay of a parturient on a bed.-4. Distribution of hospital parturients by distance from the medical institution (one-verst or cumulative districts), indicating the number of births per 100 newborns, per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Number of bed-days per parturient. Home obstetrical care and their distribution by distances from the medical institution. Obstetrical care and means of communication (highways, rivers, etc.).-The listed elements with some changes and additions due to specialization, out-of-town patients, etc., can be adopted for the statistics of city hospitals as well. Materials for hospital statistics are: a) the statistical card of a bed patient, b) the statistical card of obstetrical care, c) the statistical card of artificial termination of pregnancy, d) monthly and annual reports of medical institutions.