CASE QUESTIONS:

Conduct an Internet search and library research to answer the following questions:

1. Distinguish between daily inpatient census and inpatient census.
2. When must a census be taken?
3. Should adults/children and newborn data be combined in calculating the average daily inpatient census?
4. What is needed to calculate the average daily inpatient census in addition to inpatient service days?
5. Must TRF-ins equal TRF-outs on a daily census report:
   1. On individual clinical units?
   2. Hospital-wide (aggregate from all clinical units)?
6. A patient admitted to the medical unit is transferred the same day to the surgical unit. On which unit is the patient counted at census-taking time?
7. When would a newborn be considered and A&D?
8. St. Luke's Hospital Data: ( See picture attatched ) then calculate 1.2.3.4

A&C NB Other May 31: Census 141 10 June 1: Admissions Live discharges ON w - W OO Deaths Fetal deaths N N DOAs A&D 2 O