Question

9. In April, Community Hospital reported 923 discharge days for adults and children and 107 discharge daysfor newborns. During the month, 192 adults and children and 37 newborns were discharged. Calculate theALOS for adults and children for the month of April. Round to one decimal place.

Answer 1

Average Length of Stay(ALOS) is calculated by summing the number of days for all stays (where partial days, including non-overnight stays, are rounded up to the next full day) and dividing by the number of patients.

`\text{alos}=\frac{total\text{ number of days}}{\text{totl number of patients}}`

The total number of days is

`\begin{gathered} =923+107 \\ =1030 \end{gathered}`

The total number of patients is

`\begin{gathered} =192+37 \\ =229 \end{gathered}`

By applying the formula above, we will have

`\begin{gathered} \text{alos}=\frac{total\text{ number of days}}{\text{total number of patients}} \\ \text{alos}=(1030)/(229) \\ \text{alos}=4.4978 \\ \text{alos}\approx4.5 \end{gathered}`

Hence,

The final answer is =4.5