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Dr. Rasha Salama
PhD Community Medicine and Public Health
Suez Canal UniversityEgypt
Utilization is defined as the manner in which a certain community makes use of its available hospital resources.
Utilization of a certain hospital can be measured by:
Volume of Hospital Utilization. Character of Individuals Utilizing
Hospital. Efficiency of Hospital Utilization
This is calculated according to: Number of discharges (patients) of a hospital.
Days of hospital care (service days).
= sum of all patients days in hospital.
Average length of stay (ALS). The mean.
Character Utilization:
Use according to age Use according to sex Use according to procedure i.e. biopsy,
surgery… Use according to diagnosis (through
international classification of disease).
Efficiency of hospital utilization:
An efficient hospital is one that is capable of achieving these results with no or minimal waste (cost/effectiveness).
Effectiveness of hospital utilization:
An effective hospital is one that is capable of producing good results in terms of prevention and cure of diseases and disabilities.
These are measured through:
Beds costs and their number:
Bed occupancy rate. Negative side – vacancy rate (no. of empty beds)
Turn-over rate
Number of patients' day (service days) in a
year
Number of beds x 365
X 100
Number of patients' day (service days) in a year
Number of beds x 30
X 100
Vacancy Rate =
100% - occupancy rate
The number of patients in a specific period
The number of beds