Occupied bed
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Object Class |
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| METEOR identifier: | 375696 |
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| Definition: | An occupied bed is an available bed where there is a patient physically in the bed or the bed is being retained for a patient (e.g. the patient is receiving treatment or is on leave). |
| Specialisation of: | Organisation |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Comments: | Beds may be available but not occupied, e.g. an 8 bed ward may be fully staffed, but only 7 beds are occupied. Also if a patient has left a bed to receive a different care type and will not be returning within 24 hours, the bed is not occupied. The Occupancy Rate is calculated by dividing total bed days in a period by the product of the available beds and the days in the period – e.g. if in a non-leap year patients accumulated 33,000 bed days in a hospital with 100 overnight-stay beds, the occupancy rate = 33,000/(365*100) = 90.4%. N.B. Occupancy rates calculated for same-day beds could exceed 100%. |
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Relational attributes | |
| Data Element Concepts implementing this Object Class: | Occupied bed—hospital in the home care
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