Term: Utilization of Hospital Resources

Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2007-09-26

Definition:

A module of the Population Health Information System that examines Manitoba's utilization of hospital resources. This includes measures of overall use of hospital care, use of long stay, short stay, and outpatient surgical care, issues of access to hospitals, and patterns of care that contribute to differential utilization of hospitals in relation to measures of need for medical care.

Related terms 

• Access to Hospital Services
• Actual Bed Supply
• Acute Care
• Average Length of Stay (ALOS)
• Bed Supply / Bed Map
• Comorbidity / Comorbidities
• Comorbidity Classification
• Days of Hospital Care
• Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG™) Weights
• Discretionary Nature of Services
• Effective Bed Supply
• Episode of Hospital Care
• Health Care Utilization
• Hospital Care Data
• Hospitalizations
• Indicators of Differential Utilization
• Indicators of Need
• Inpatient Hospital Care
• Intensity of Resource Use (IRU)
• Length of Stay (LOS)
• Length of Stay Categories
• Level of Care (LOC) Received
• Level of Comorbidity and Complications
• Location of Care (Received)
• Long Stay (Care)
• Persons Hospitalized
• POPULIS
• Region of Residence
• Separation(s)
• Type Of Care - Inpatient

References 

• Frohlich N, Markesteyn T, Roos NP, Carriere KC, Black C, De Coster C, Burchill CA, MacWilliam L. A Report on the Health Status, Socio-Economic Risk and Health Care Use of the Manitoba Population, 1992-93 and Overview of the 1990-91 to 1992-93 Findings. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation, 1994. [Report] [Summary] (View)