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Table 10 Clinical units and managerial information

From: Neural networks and hospital length of stay: an application to support healthcare management with national benchmarks and thresholds

Clinical unit

Hospitalization length (case study)a

Hospitalization length (national benchmark)a

Beds

Number of hospitalizations

Cardiology

5.352

5.764

28

1713

Hematology

18.699

16.039

15

300

Geriatrics

12.516

9.808

29

875

Infectious diseases

13.188

11.940

22

525

Internal medicine

10.076

9.744

37

1303

Emergency medicine

9.387

9.412

25

1090

Nephrology

14.364

9.333

8

218

Neurology

9.724

9.339

23

706

Coronary care

6.340

8.208

–

81

Gastroenterology

7.861

8.566

8

328

Oncology

11.533

10.717

18

561

Respiratory diseases

10.525

9.738

23

727

Rheumatology

13.997

9.387

2

30

Total (DIEM)

9.891

9.219

237

8457

  1. aAverage number of days