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Chapter 3
Patient Cesus
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following applies to a unit of service received by one inpatient in one 24-hour period? | Inpatient service day |
| Healthy Hospital reported 20,932 A&C discharges. A total of 136,330 days of care were rendered to these patients. Inpatient service days for the year were 136,651. Compute the average daily census for the year, round to two decimal places. | 374.39 |
| The inpatient census at 12:01 am is 57. Two patients were admitted at 1 pm. and one died at 3:15 pm, and the other was discharged at 10:00 pm. The inpatient service days for that day are | 59 |
| A patient is admitted to the hospital at 8:00 AM and is discharged at 8:00 PM the same day. The inpatient service day for this patient is ____. | 1 day |
| The most common time for taking inpatient census is | Midnight |
| Which of the following applies to a unit of service received by one inpatient in one 24-hour period? | Inpatient service day |
| Inpatient discharges include _____. | Sending the patient home, deaths,interhospital transfers |
| A patient day or an inpatient day is more correctly termed | inpatient service day |
| The hospital census on May 3 is 456. On May 4: Admissions= 58, Discharges= 45, A&D= 6, DOA= 3 a. Census for May 4 b. Daily inpatient census (DIPC) for May 4 c. Inpatient service day (IPSD) for May 4 | Census for May 4=469 Daily inpatient census (DIPC) for May 4 =475 Inpatient service day (IPSD) for May 4 =475 |
| During the period of March, April, and May, a 65-bed hospital had 5,280 inpatient service days. What was the average daily inpatient census for that period? Round to two decimal places. | 57.39 |
| In a hospital that has 300 beds and 40 newborn bassinets, the total inpatient service days for April were 8,820 for adults and children and 1,157 for newborns. What is the average daily census for April? | 294 |