What is it about?
The ratio of bed days per death can be used as a performance tool to track the success of initiatives aimed at moving care from an acute to a community setting.
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Why is it important?
End-of-life (and hence death) is a high cost period in a persons lifetime health care cost profile.
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Part of a wide series emphasizing that the absolute number of deaths in a particular location is a measure of end-of-life associated costs, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Bed days: a new tool, British Journal of Healthcare Management, May 2011, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2011.17.5.213.
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