In class, we learned about the three types of measures:  Structure, process, and outcome. For the Quality Measure “Acute Otitis Externa (AOE): Systemic Antimicrobial Therapy – Avoidance of Inappropriate Use”, what type of measure is this identified as?

What tools or processes might be used to help discover how these events happened?

In September, County General reported 819 live discharges.  They also reported 48 patients who were readmitted within the 30 days of their previous discharge. Calculate the 30-day readmission rate for September.

The following are stats for New Amsterdam Hospital for 2018: Total number of discharges:                                   723 Total number of inpatient service days:                4578 Total number of length of stay (discharge) days:  4410 Calculate the average LOS.  

City Hospital annual statistics  Inpatient Discharges:    Adults and children  8447    Newborn   814 Inpatient deaths (included in discharges)   Adults and children   72    Newborn     4 Fetal deaths:   Early    7   Intermediate    5     Late    3 Inpatient Autopsies    Adults and children   16    Newborn     3 Coroner’s cases    Unavailable for autopsy     3    Autopsy by hospital pathologist (included in inpatient autopsies)     1 Fetal death autopsies    Intermediate and Late    3 Former hospital patient brought in for autopsy    1 Calculate the gross autopsy rate: Calculate the net autopsy rate: Calculate the adjusted hospital autopsy rate: Calculate the newborn autopsy rate: Calculate the fetal autopsy rate:

A patient who transferred at 5 p.m. on Tuesday to unit A from unit B is counted in unit A’s 12:01 a.m. census on Wednesday as one additional patient present.  Should the patient still be included in unit B’s 12:01 a.m. census on Wednesday?  Yes or No?  Explain your answer.

The census at 12:01 a.m. on June 1 is 110. Three patients were admitted on June 1 at 6:00 a.m. and discharged later that same day. One patient admitted at 6:00 a.m. died at 5:30 p.m. the same afternoon. What is the PCU’s daily inpatient census for June 1?

The denominator in the anesthesia death rate formula is the “total number of patients receiving anesthetics.”

Patients who are DOA are included in death rate calculations,

If an infant dies in the hospital within the neonatal period, it’s death is considered a newborn death.