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Table 8 Clinical units and inputs (second part: time and day of hospitalization)

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

Clinical unit

Time slot

Day

Morning (%)

Afternoon (%)

Night (%)

Monday (%)

Tuesday (%)

Wednesday (%)

Thursday (%)

Friday (%)

Saturday (%)

Sunday (%)

Cardiology

74.1

16.7

9.2

14.5

19.8

17.3

20.2

17.8

4.1

6.3

Hematology

47.2

48.6

4.2

14.3

16.8

17.1

17.5

19.9

9.4

4.9

Geriatrics

19.5

56.8

23.7

12.4

13.9

15.3

15.9

15.6

15.1

11.8

Infectious diseases

31.2

56.4

12.4

12.8

18.9

14.9

16.8

18.9

9.6

8.2

Internal medicine

16.5

60.6

22.9

13.2

14.0

16.1

14.2

15.9

14.9

11.7

Emergency medicine

12.7

68.4

18.9

13.8

15.9

14.3

15.5

15.1

13.2

12.2

Nephrology

29.9

57.2

12.9

16.4

14.4

17.4

11.9

17.9

13.4

8.5

Neurology

34.2

43.7

22.0

12.5

14.2

17.0

16.4

14.2

13.5

12.1

Coronary care

32.4

32.0

35.6

16.3

17.1

15.9

9.5

13.3

14.9

13.1

Gastroenterology

14.3

60.2

25.5

15.3

14.6

14.6

13.7

15.9

13.4

12.4

Oncology

57.2

33.5

9.2

17.1

17.7

16.1

16.7

16.7

8.8

7.0

Respiratory diseases

31.3

54.8

13.9

12.2

18.2

16.1

15.3

17.5

11.8

8.8

Rheumatology

9.1

86.4

4.5

22.7

9.1

22.7

18.2

18.2

0.0

9.1

Total (DIEM)

33.2

48.8

18.1

13.9

16.3

16.0

15.8

16.3

11.7

10.1