1. Guide in Understanding and Using Hospital Statistics

2. Hospital Statistics as Indicators of Management
Hospital Performance as Service Outputs
Hospital Managerial Efficiency
Hospital Service Utilization
Indicators Used for Planning
Effectiveness and Quality of Clinical Services
Methods of Analysing Hospital Statistics

3. Hospital Performance as Service Outputs
Volume of clinical work.
Outpatient attendance
Operations
Admissions.
Deliveries
Discharges
Autopsies
Daily Inpatient Census
Volume of support services
Laboratory
Laundry
Radiology
Central Sterile Supply
Pharmacy
Ambulance
ECG
Etc.

4. Hospital Managerial Efficiency
Outputs per unit of input OR Inputs per unit of output
Inputs
Money (cost)
Time
People
Capital
Outputs
Hospitalization stay
X-ray Exam
Outpatient attendance
Meal
Operation
etc
Laboratory Exam

5. Hospital Service Utilization
Number of patient-days rendered
Service Utilization Statistics
Average length of stay
Average inpatient per day
Bed occupancy (or occupancy rate)
Bed turn-over rate
Ratio of outpatient consultation to admission
Average number of consultations per patient.
OPD performance indices.
Ave. duration per OPD attendance
Performance of one clinic hour
Average frequency of specific measures per patient

6. Indicators Used for Planning
Bed/population ratio
Admission or discharge rate
Hospitalization rate
Emergency room visit rate
Outpatient consultation rate

7. Effectiveness and Quality of Clinical Services
Mortality
Gross death rate
Net death rate
Deaths within 48 hours of admission
Anesthesia death rate
Post-operative death rate
Maternal death rate
Infant death rate
Fetal death rate
Abortion rate

8. Effectiveness and Quality of Clinical Services (cont)
Morbidity
Gross morbidity or infection rate
Net morbidity or infection rate
Post-operation infection rate
Specific intervention
Caesarean Section Rate
D and C rate
Appendectomy rate
Blood transfusion reaction rate

9. Methods of Analysing Hospital Statistics
Leading causes
Statistical trends
Information for guidance in clinical management
Autopsies
Gross autopsies rate
Net autopsies rate