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You are responsible for calculating and reporting average length of stay (ALOS) for your hospital each month. This month, there were 92 discharges, and the total discharge days equal 875. One of the patients discharged this month had a total of 428 discharge days, so the ALOS is distorted by this unusually long stay. In this situation, you should report an ALOS of A. 9.51 days— no further information is necessary. B. 9.61 days and make a note that the one patient with an unusually long LOS was subtracted prior to making the calculation. C. 4.86 days and make a note that one unusually long LOS was subtracted prior to making the calculation. D. 4.91 days and make a note that the data on one patient with an unusually long LOS was subtracted prior to making the calculation. - correct answer D. Only two answers, A and D, are correctly calculated. Should you choose to include the unusually long LOS, you should make a note to avoid confusing readers, which makes the answer "A" a poor choice. Should you choose to eliminate the potentially confusing LOS, you must subtract both the patient from the total discharges and the discharge days from the total discharge days. Lake City Health Center has 200 beds and 20 bassinets. In a nonleap year, Styles Hospital admitted 16,437 adults and children; 16,570 adults and children were discharged. There were 1,764 live births and 1,798 newborns discharged. The bed turnover rate for the year was A. 82.2. B. 82.7. C. 82.9. D. 93.5. - correct answer C. Use the direct method, bed turnover. 16,570 adult and peds discharges/200 adult and peds beds = 82.85 = 82.9% Ocean View Healthcare Center recorded six fetal deaths during the last year; details are listed below: Fetal Death Information ID WEIGHT GESTATIONAL AGE A 526 g 22 weeks B 405 g 18 weeks C 81 7 g 26 weeks D 1,023 g 30 weeks E 629 g 24 weeks F 1,113 g 29 weeks How should these deaths be counted in the hospital death rates? A. All the deaths except B will be included in the gross death rate. B. Deaths D and F will be included in the gross death rate. C. Deaths C, D, and F will be included in the gross death rate. D. None of these deaths will be included in the gross death rate. - correct answer D. William Rumple was pronounced dead on arrival (DOA). The hospital pathologist performed an autopsy on Mr. Rumple's body. This statistical event would be counted in the A. net death rate. B. gross death rate. C. net autopsy rate. D. hospital autopsy rate. - correct answer D. The New Beginnings Maternity Center recorded the following statistics in December: FETAL DEATHS EARLY 240 INTERMEDIATE 40 LATE 32 BIRTHS 980 DELIVERIES 994 NEWBORN DISCHARGES 1,008 What was the fetal death rate at New Beginnings Maternity Center in December? A. 6.8% B. 7.3% C. 7.4% D. 31.8% - correct answer A. (72 intermediate and late fetal deaths × 100) = 7,200 = 6.8% (980 births + 72 intermediate and late fetal deaths) 1052 Mr. McDonaldson was admitted to your hospital at 10:45 PM on January 1. He died at 4:22 AM on January 3. How many inpatient service days did Mr. McDonaldson receive? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 - correct answer B. The day of admission is counted as an inpatient service day, but the day of discharge is not. Twelve new cases of a certain disease occurred during the month of August. If 4,000 persons were at risk during August, then the A. prevalence was 3 per 1,000 persons. B. prevalence was 6 per 1,000 persons. C. incidence was 3 per 1,000 persons. D. incidence was 6 per 1,000 persons. - correct answer C. (4000 divided by 12) You are trying to improve communications with your staff by posting graphs of significant statistics on the employee bulletin board. You recently calculated the percentage of time employees spend on each of six major tasks. Because you would like the employees to appreciate each task as a percentage of their whole day, you will post these figures using a A. line graph. B. bar graph. C. scatter diagram. D. pie graph. - correct answer D. A distribution is said to be positively skewed when the mean is A. bimodal. B. multimodal. C. shifted to the left. D. shifted to the right. - correct answer D. The statistics reported for a 300-bed hospital for 1 year were 20,932 discharges with 136,651 discharge days and 3,699 consultations performed. What was the consultation rate for the year? A. 16.5% B. 17.0% C. 17.7% D. 18.0% - correct answer C. (3,699 × 100) / 20,932 = 17.7% The best form/graph for demonstrating trends over time would be A. frequency polygon. B. line graph.