TITLE:
Resident Hospital Discharges by Severity of Illness at the Regional Level
AUTHORS:
Ronald Lagoe, Gretchen Lagoe
KEYWORDS:
Hospitalization, Hospital Discharges, Severity of Illness
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.8 No.5,
May
30,
2019
ABSTRACT: In the twentieth century, government sponsored health planning focused on the use of services by population in the United States. This case study evaluated the impact of severity of illness for resident hospital discharges for 2017, the latest time period for which this information was available. It focused on the Central New York Health Service Area, one of the original health planning populations. The study demonstrated that patients at Extreme severity of illness constituted similar percentages of adult medicine and adult surgery populations in the Central New York Region. The sizes of Moderate severity of illness populations were also similar. The study identified considerable differences in the sizes of Minor and Major severity of illness populations for adult medicine and adult surgery in the Central New York Region. These differences resulted from large numbers of healthy patients in the adult surgery population. They were admitted for orthopedic procedures and procedures to address obesity.