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Dimension Society and Culture
Sub-Dimension Education, Health and Culture

Category Health
KPI Name In-Patient Hospital Beds
KPI No. SC: EH: H: 4A Type: Advanced Type: Structural

Definition / Number of in-patient public hospital beds per 100 000 inhabitants
Description

Rationale / The number of in-patient public hospital beds is one of the few available
Interpretation / indicators that monitor the level of a health service delivery. Service delivery is an
Benchmarking important part of health systems, and in-patient public hospital bed density is one
of the few indicators that can be collected worldwide. (WHO 2006)
Hospital beds shall include in-patient and maternity beds. This shall include beds
in wards which are closed for reasons such as lack of health staff and building
works. It shall also include beds for patients admitted who require continual
assistance, incubators and specialized care. It may not include day care beds, pre-
anaesthesia beds, wake-up beds, beds for members of a patient’s family, and beds
for hospital staff. (ISO 37120:2014)
An in-patient is someone who is formally admitted (or “hospitalized”) to an
1
institution for treatment and/or care, and stays for a minimum of one night in the
hospital or in any other institution providing in-patient care.
A higher value should be pursued based on health and economic factors.
An increasing trend is considered positive.
Source(s) NOTE 1 – OECD. Glossary of Statistical Terms. Retrieved from <https:// stats .oecd
.org/ glossary/ detail .asp ?ID = 1364>
NOTE 2 – ISO 37120:2014. Sustainable development of communities – Indicators
for city services and quality of life.

NOTE 3 – World Health Statistics. 2020. Retrieved from
<https:// www .who .int/ publications/ i/ item/ 9789240005105>
Methodology Calculate as:

Numerator: Total number of in-patient hospital beds (public and private).
Denominator: One 100 000th of the city’s population.

1 Formal admission is based on whether the patient is treated by a doctor or by other medical staff in the facility. Only
patients of doctors are formally admitted into the hospital patient registry. Other individuals whose cases are dealt with
by other medical personnel (including, nurses and paramedics) are not considered patients of the hospitals and records
of their visit are not retained beyond a period of 1–2 years. Additionally, outpatient consultations with doctors at a hospi-
tal or clinic do not constitute formal admission. However, records of these outpatient visits are kept in the hospital registry
for the full retention period (based on the country’s laws).

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