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Growing number of day cases in hospitals
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Patient statistics, 2005

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Growing number of day cases in hospitals

The number of day cases in general hospitals rose by 10 per cent from 2004 to 2005. Private hospitals without a regular agreement with the Regional Health Authorities are doing a small, but growing part of the treatments. The number of inpatient hospital stays rose by 1.7 per cent last year.

Of the five Regional Health Authorities (RHA) the Eastern RHA had the highest number of day-cases, almost 144 000 of totally 506 000. The Eastern RHA also had the greatest increase in number of day-cases, approximately 13 per cent. Only private hospitals without a regular agreement with the Regional Health Authorities, had a greater growth in number of day-cases with 23.5 per cent.

Number of inpatient hospital stays, day cases and outpatient
consultations, by Regional Health Authority (RHA). 2005
  Inpatient
hospital stays 		Day cases1 Outpatient
consultations
Total  809 970    505 931   3 450 637
Eastern Norway RHA  242 124  143 821 1 064 204
Southern Norway RHA  194 160  138 882  779 963
Western Norway RHA  156 122 89 327  665 370
Central Norway RHA  109 286 61 500  544 080
Northern Norway RHA 83 645 47 862  397 020
Private hospitals without RHA agreement 24 633 24 539 -
1  Includes both day cases inpatient and day cases outpatient.

The number of inpatient stays at general hospitals were about 810 000 in 2005. For private hospitals without a regular agreement with the Regional Health Authorities, the increase in inpatient stays was 5.3 per cent, elsewhere there were only small changes.

The 10 "biggest" general hospitals. 2005
General hospital Inpatient hospital stays
Haukeland Universitetssjukehus 52 497
St Olavs Hospital 46 414
Ullevål universitetssykehus 45 951
Stavanger universitetssjukehus 41 316
Akershus universitetssykehus 39 056
Sykehuset østfold 36 989
Rikshospitalet 31 785
Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge 25 479
Sykehuset Buskerud 24 938
Sørlandet sykehus Kristiansand 22 974

Average length stay still decreasing

The average length of a hospital stay is still decreasing. In 2005 an average inpatient stay was 5.1 days. To compare, the average length of inpatient stay in 2004 was 5.2 days, and 6.0 days in 2000. Patients 80 years and older have the longest inpatient stays in hospitals. Men in this age group have over 5000 bed-days per 1000 inhabitants in 2005, while women have nearly 4000.

Outpatient care

The number of outpatient consultations at general hospitals was in 2005 approximately 3 450 000. This is an increase of 2.6 per cent from the previous year, or 90 000 more consultations. The most common cause of outpatient treatment was diseases in the musculoskeletal system and injury and poisoning. 56 per cent of all outpatient consultations were for women.

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