Patients spent less time in Dutch hospitals in 2010 than in 2009. This was announced by the consultancy Coppa.
The average length of stay decreased in 2010 by 4.5 percent to 3.17 days per patient per hospital. The specializations that achieved the greatest reduction in length of stay in 2010 are rheumatology, geriatrics, dermatology, neurology, surgery and pulmonary medicine †
Bedding surplus
The results also show that in Dutch hospitals sufficient beds are available are, partly as a result of an increasingly decreasing length of stay † Calculations show that there is overcapacity in the Netherlands, calculated across all hospitals. of 12 percent. This corresponds to more than 5,000 beds," Coppa reports.
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