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Table 2 Health ratio indicator expressing resource utilization rate of hospitals

From: Is bed turnover rate a good metric for hospital scale efficiency? A measure of resource utilization rate for hospitals in Southeast Nigeria

Hospital-year

Bed occupancy rate (BOR) in  %

Average length of stay (ALS) in days

Bed turnover rate (BTR) in patients per bed per year

Turnover interval (TI in days)

FETHA 2011

40.24

4.28

34

6.35

FETHA 2012

24.73

3.27

28

9.96

FETHA 2013

30.06

3.76

29

8.76

FETHA 2014

32.85

3.61

33

7.39

FETHA 2015

32.07

4.19

28

8.88

FETHA 2016

31.85

3.50

33

7.49

FETHA Mean

31.97

3.77

31

8.04

ESUTH 2010

33.95

9.00

14

17.51

ESUTH 2011

22.62

12.06

7

41.27

ESUTH 2012

59.71

11.00

20

7.42

ESUTH 2013

51.52

9.00

21

8.47

ESUTH 2014

57.81

13.00

16

9.49

ESUTH 2015

42.93

8.00

20

10.64

ESUTH 2016

62.37

9.00

25

5.43

ESUTH Mean

47.27

10.15

18

10.72

UNTH 2010

43.16

10.07

16

13.26

UNTH 2011

54.71

10.50

19

8.69

UNTH 2012

54.96

9.97

20

8.17

UNTH 2013

56.66

10.24

20

7.83

UNTH 2014

36.70

9.96

13

17.18

UNTH 2015

28.74

9.42

11

23.35

UNTH 2016

45.08

9.14

18

11.14

UNTH Mean

45.72

9.90

17

11.83

Mean

42.14

8.15

21

10.19

Minimum

22.62

3.27

7

5.43

Maximum

62.37

13.00

34

41.27

  1. FETHA is Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, ESUTH is Enugu State Teaching
  2. Hospital and UNTH is University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital