In 2023, the average U.S. hospital length of stay (LOS) varied from as high as *** days in the District of Columbia to just *** days in Utah and South Dakota. A lot of factors contribute to a patient's LOS such as comorbidity, staffing levels, and patient mix. Therefore, LOS is not just a measure of hospital efficiency but is complicated by case complexity.

In 2022, a hospital stay in the United States had an average length of 5.2 days. Between 1999 and 2019, inpatient hospital length of stay fluctuated little, averaging at 4.5 to 4.7. Since 2019, inpatient stays have increased by half a day.

In 2022, the average length of stay in a hospital in Japan for curative inpatient care was 27.3 days. This is a decrease from an average of 32.5 days in the year 2010. On the other hand, inpatients receiving curative care (as opposed to rehabilitative care) stayed on average just 5.6 days in Australia and Sweden.

In the period from 2010 to 2022, the average length of hospital stay for acute care in the United Kingdom (UK) has not changed significantly. In 2010, the average length of stay in hospital was *** days, by 2022 it was *** days after remaining at six days in intervening years. High amount of admissions to hospital There were almost *** million admissions to hospital between January and March 2018 in England. This quarterly figure of admissions has remained fairly consistent since 2014. The busiest hospital trust in England by admissions in the year 2017/18 was the Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust with almost *** thousand admissions. Situation in Accident and Emergency In the third quarter of 2017/18, A&E in England received over six million attendees. The number of attendances has been creeping upwards since 2012. *** percent of people attending A&E in the last year were diagnosed with a dislocation, fracture, joint injury or amputation, followed by *** percent with a respiratory condition.

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In 2018, the state of Wyoming had the longest average stay in community hospitals, with a patient staying an average of **** days. Utah, on the other hand, had the shortest average length of stay in community hospitals with just *** days.

Hospital stays

The percentage of people in the U.S. with one or more hospitals stays in the past year has gradually decreased over the past couple decades. In 2017, around *** percent of the U.S. population had one or more hospital stays in the past year. Females report more hospital stays than males, and unsurprisingly, those aged 65 years and older are much more likely to be hospitalized than younger people.

Hospitals

Just as the percentage of people in the U.S. who have been hospitalized each year has decreased, so has the number of hospitals. In 1975, there were around ***** hospitals in the U.S., compared to ***** hospitals in the year 2018. Predictably, the number of available hospital beds in the U.S. has also decreased. In 2018, there were ******* hospital beds in the United States.

Data on hospital admission, average length of stay, outpatient visits, and outpatient surgery in the United States, by type of ownership and size of hospital. Data are from Health, United States. SOURCE: American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey of Hospitals, Hospital Statistics. Search, visualize, and download these and other estimates from over 120 health topics with the NCHS Data Query System (DQS), available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dataquery/index.htm.

This dataset contains indicators hospital health care services utilization by diseases in country members OECD (The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) and for countries in accession negotiations with OECD. The indicators values cover the period 1970-2018.

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Average length of stay in days per quarter for inpatients at public metropolitan and country hospitals by quarter by hospital

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In 2023, a hospital stay of patients requiring long-term nursing care in Japan had an average length of ***** days, while patients with common diseases stayed in hospitals for **** days on average. That year, the average length of stay in hospitals of all patients amounted to **** days.

The dataset has United States national trends in the number of inpatient stays, average cost per stay (actual and inflation-adjusted), average length of stay, and in-hospital mortality rate from 1994-2019. The trends are stratified by age, sex, expected payer, community-level income, and hospitalization type.

In 2019, Hospital Average Length of Stay for Pneumonia Cases in South Korea rose 1.6% from a year earlier.

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The mean and median number of overnight acute care hospital stays and the mean and median length of stay in the last year of life by decedent factors (n = 12,763).

Non-expenditure healthcare data provide information on institutions providing healthcare in countries, on resources used and on output produced in the framework of healthcare provision.

Data on healthcare form a major element of public health information as they describe the capacities available for different types of healthcare provision as well as potential 'bottlenecks' observed. The quantity and quality of healthcare services provided and the work sharing established between the different institutions are a subject of ongoing debate in all countries. Sustainability - continuously providing the necessary monetary and personal resources needed - and meeting the challenges of ageing societies are the primary perspectives used when analysing and using the data.

The resource-related data refer to both human and technical resources, i.e. they relate to:

• Health care staff: 'manpower' active in the health care sector (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.);
• Heath workforce migration: migration movements of doctors and nurses;
• Healthcare facilities: technical capacity dimensions (hospital beds, beds in nursing and residential care facilities, etc.).

The output-related data ('activities') refer to contacts between patients and the healthcare system, and to the treatment thereby received. Data are available for hospital discharges of in-patients and day cases, average length of stay of in-patients, consultations with medical professionals, and medical procedures performed in hospitals.

Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers, percentages, and in population-standardised rates (per 100 000 inhabitants).

Wherever applicable, the definitions and classifications of the System of Health Accounts (SHA) are followed, e.g. International Classification for Health Accounts - Providers of health care (ICHA-HP). For hospital discharges, the International Shortlist for Hospital Morbidity Tabulation (ISHMT) is used. Surgical procedures are classified according to a shortlist mapped to ICD-9-CM.

These healthcare data are largely based on administrative data sources in the countries. Therefore, they reflect the country-specific way of organising healthcare and may not always be completely comparable.