Hospital Official Statistics

At the end of the course, the students should be able to; 1. appreciate and extensively explain the concept of hospital statistics (definition, history and components); 2. express in-depth knowledge on basic technologies for reporting hospital activities and process of obtaining hospital statistics data; 3. expound the types of hospital admission and process of obtaining hospital statistics data; 4. discuss basic terminologies for reporting hospital activities; 5. describe requirements for obstetrics and pre-natal care, uses of obstetrics and pre-natal data; 6. debate essential hospital data process of hospital data presentation and methods of hospital data presentation; 7. report generation on method of hospital data presentation and hospital official statistics in health; and 8. describe problems in collection, analysis, dissemination and use of official statistics in health.

Definition of hospital statistics, history of hospital statistics and components of hospital statistics. Types of hospital admission process of obtaining hospital statistics data. Basic terminologies for reporting hospital activities such as bed complement, occupied bed days, vacant bed days, through put, turnover interval and average length of stay. Computation of percentages and rates: define rates, types of rates- fertility, morbidity, mortality and many others uses of rate. Definition and uses of percentage occupancy. Explanation and uses of ratios, proportions, average and many others. definition and types of events such as treatment, counselling, advises, operation, ancillary cure and many others. episode of care and type of transfers. Reporting requirements for obstetrics and pre-natal care, uses of obstetrics and pre-natal data. Discharge analysis of hospital services. Definition and essentials of hospital data process of hospital data presentation and methods of hospital data presentation. Report generation and methods of hospital data presentation. Report generation on hospital official statistics in health. Problems in collection, analysis, dissemination and use of official statistics in health. Statistical organisations: national and international.