Question

A 200 bed hospital recorded the following during the past whole year:

Discharges 7,000

Average LOS 8.5 days

Bed occupancy rate 82%

How many times of the 200 hospital bed changed occupants?

(hint) there are 2 ways to calculate the answers; direct and indirect formula.

Answer 1

Total number of beds -200

Total discharges - 7000

Average length of stay - 8.5

Bed occupancy rate -82%

Considering the year to be non -leap year - 365days

To calculate the times of 200 hospital beds changed occupants we have two formulas direct and indirect

Applying direct formula :-

Divide the number of discharges including dealth by number of beds

= 7000/ 200

= 35 number of times

Now , applying the indirect formula :-

First of all the bed occupancy rate has to be changed to a decimal = 0.82 ,then multiply it by number of days in a year 365 and divide the value by the length of stay

= 0.8×365/ 8.5

= 34.3 number of times