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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think we can create a special symbol in indicator formulas for this which
then is substituted with the number of days in the aggregation period during
the aggregation process.

Lars


On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:06 PM, samuel cheburet
<samuelcheburet@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thanks ola for your conments. see attached report from one of the district
> which contain facility data.
>
> some of the formulas used:-
>
>  1.*Bed compliment or staffed bed*= The number of beds permanently
> allocated to a hospital for treatment of inpatient
> 2.*Bed state*= the number of patients occupying hospital beds at any given
> time (ABD Available bed Days = Total beds* period like January *30, Feb  *28
> or 29 etc).
> 3.*Bed turnover/Turnover per bed/Throughput per bed*= The average number of
> patients expected to be treated per bed
> (TOB = turn per bed)
> 4.*Turnover interval*= The average number of days beds lie vacant between successive
> patients  (TOI = turn per interval)
> 5.*Percentage occupancy*= The percentage of actual patient days to the maximum
> available patient days as determined by bed capacity during any given
> period (% occupancy)
> 6.*Occupied bed days*= The total number of patients remaining in the hospital/ward
> each day added together over a reference period
> 7.*Length of stay*= the average number of days patients occupy a bed
>  8.
>  8.*Average occupancy/Average number of patients* = the average number of patients
> in a hospital during a specified period
> 9.
> 10.*Inpatient*= A person who has gone through the full admission procedure
> of the hospital and who is occupying a bed in the inpatient department at
> the hour of the fixed count.
> 11.*Day cases* = Day cases are persons attending as non-resident patients
> for investigation, therapeutic test, operative procedure or other
> treatment and who require some form of preparation period of recovery or
> both involving the provision of accommodation and service.
>
> Regards
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On 17 December 2010 11:44, samuel cheburet <samuelcheburet@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear
>>>
>>> On the above subject there is need to generate a list  of Orgunit in the
>>> DHIS like list of County and it district names.
>>>
>>> Also on Demographic  there is need come up with a way where once place
>>> growth rate the population estimate adjuct itself the following year without
>>> re culculating.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless there is need to have dynamic Available bed days ((bed+cots)
>>> *period).
>>>
>>>
>> For bed days what we normally do is to calculate this as pat of the
>> indicator formula, e.g. when defining an indicator measuring the monthly
>> "Bed occupancy rate" the denominator is:
>> "Number of beds" * 30.3
>>
>> Numerator depends on what data you have of course, but could be  "Total
>> lying days" or "Inpatient days" + 0.5 * "Day patients" , or monthly sum of
>> the midnight census etc..
>>
>> The static value of 30.3 used in the denominator is the average length of
>> a month.
>>
>> I guess this does not work very well with quarterly and annual indicator
>> values, at least these will have to be separate indicators. Or Lars can come
>> up with something more programmatic, like the annualised property.
>>
>> Ola
>> -------
>>
>>
>>> Regards
>>>
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>>> Samuel Cheburet
>>> Ministry Of Health
>>> P.O. Box 20781
>>> Nairobi, Kenya
>>> Mobile- 0721624338
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>
>
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> Nairobi, Kenya
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