Bed utilization performances of Slovenian and Croatian acute hospitals systems
Premik, M.; Mayer, V.; Kuzman, M.; Mayer, M.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 68: 606-609
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 10724961 Document Number: 507561
With Barber-Johnson-Yates scattergrams (BJYS), the performances of Slovenian and Croatian acute hospital system were explored by taking turnover interval as a predictor variable, length of stay as a dependent variable, and by looking at the variables of bed throughput and percentage of bed emptiness on installed network. The growing influences on the Slovenian hospital system of a cost-containment policy and of the past war on the Croatian hospital system are the best illustrations of the informatics potential inherent in BJYS presentations for the exploratory data analysis (EDA) used to identify systematic relations between variables in a setting of not complete a priori expectations of these relations.