Author(s)

Ronald Lagoe^*, Shelly Littau

Hospital Executive Council, Syracuse, NY, USA.

This study focused on recent issues concerning health care utilization at the community level. The study focused on developments in hospital inpatient lengths of stay and discharges. The analysis in the study demonstrated that hospital lengths of stay in the metropolitan area of Syracuse, New York increased by 25.0 percent between 2019 and 2023. This has been a notable increase in the movement of patients with this indicator. The analysis also demonstrated that numbers of inpatient discharges for these hospital services declined substantially during the same periods. Review of the data suggested that this information has been related. The increase in hospital lengths of stay has been related to a rise in numbers of patients at high severity of illness. They have also been associated with a decline in numbers of patients at low severity.

Hospitals, Hospital Utilization, Long Term Care, Ambulatory Care

Lagoe, R. and Littau, S. (2024) Monitoring Changes in Hospital Utilization. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 13, 115-121. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2024.134014.