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KMID : 0377619870520020101
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1987 Volume.52 No. 2 p.101 ~ p.106
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A Study on Bed Management of Policinic General Hospital in Korea (1986)-Focused on Bed occupancy rate, Bed turn over, and Average length of stay ?
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to investigate the bed management of 168 hospitals which participated in Korea hospital standardization program (1986).
The bed management was focused on bed occupancy rate, bed turn over, and average length of stay. Selected dependent variables were hospital location, administrative body, and scale of hospital beds.
The results were as follows;
1) The distribution of hospitals according to cities & provinces showed that 50.6% of hospitals and 50.6% of hospital beds were located in Seoul, Kyunggi and Pusan. But there wasn´t showed specific tendency in bed occupancy rate, bed turn over and average length of stay.
2) The analysis of hospitals by administrative body were revealed that the cooperative 78 hospitals (46.4%) were the most in number of hospital and national & public 25 hospitals (14.9%) and private 25 hospitals (14.9%) were the fewest in number of hospital. The most number of beds (41.7%) were included in teaching hospitals. The analysis by scale of beds (group A, B, C, D) showed that group "D" hospital (89 hospitals, 53%) were the most in number of hospital. But group "A" hospital (30 hospitals, 17.9%) take the first place in number of hospital beds (38.2%).
3) The average bed occupancy rate was 79.2%. The teaching hospital was the highest (81.1%) and the private hospital was the lowest (72.8%). The more increased in scale of hospital beds, the more increased in average length of stay.
4) The average number of bed turn over by annual was 25.1. Private hospital showed the most rapid frequency (27.3) and national & public hospital showed the slowest frequency (22.2). But there wasn´t showed specific tendency. The average length of stay was 11.4
days. National & public hospital showed the longest length of stay (13.1 days) and private hospital showed the shortest (10 days) . The more increased in scale of beds, the more longer in average length of stay.
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