Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:36:47 -0500
Reply-To: Michael Braten <Michael_Braten@AFE.COM>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From: Michael Braten <Michael_Braten@AFE.COM>
Subject: Re: Count Patient Days
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Hi .
First, if you have repetative observations then sort by patient ID
remembering to remove dups .
Second to determine the Length of Stay (los) use the INTCK function:
LOS = INTCK('day',disday, admitday);
This will give you the number of days between the SAS dates
of admit and discaharge. (be sure you handle situations
where patient was Admitted and Discharged in same day).
MAke sure LOS is retained so that the value is accumulated for
multiple stays (that assumes that the dataset is sorted by PID and
that you use FIRST. and LAST.
Hope this helped !
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Subject: Count Patient Days
Author: madoc@IBM.NET at TIME_INC
Date: 3/2/98 2:03 PM
Hello!
I need to count patient days by each patient. Below are seven
records showing a typical admission and discharge pattern within one
year.
ADMITDAY DISDAY PID
08APR96 27APR96 01
08MAY96 10JUL96 01
08MAY96 10JUL96 01
08MAY96 10JUL96 01
08MAY96 10JUL96 01
08MAY96 10JUL96 01
12JUL96 15JUL96 01
This particular patient actually entered the hospital on three separate
occasions, 8 April 1996, 8 May 1996, and 12 July 1996. Included on each
record is more information telling what was done to them. I can handle
those problems. What I have not yeat been able to do is to sum the days
FOR EACH PATIENT that they were in the hospital. In the example above,
the correct count would be 85 days (19+63+3). How do I program SAS to
do this?
Randy
