Methodology - Healthcare
Acute care hospital – It is a healthcare facility that provides acute inpatient care with the purpose of preventing deterioration of health or reduce the risk of serious deterioration.
Long-term care hospitals (including mental health facilities) – It is a healthcare facility that provides follow-up care including psychiatric care. Mostly to patients whose health condition has already been stabilized, the disease has been managed and their condition requires follow-up treatment or medical rehabilitation care.
Institutes of long-term patients – It is a healthcare facility for patients whose condition cannot be substantially improved by curative care and deteriorates without continuous nursing care.
Balneological institutions – provides complete balneological care recommended by physician as an inevitable part of a treatment process.
Hospice – specialised palliative care facility. Its aim is to manage, control and alleviate the symptoms of terminal illnesses.
Hospitalised persons – The number of persons (every person only included once) hospitalised in a given health establishment, including foreigners and newborns.
Days of treatment – One day of treatment shall mean a whole calendar day, on which a patient has received all services, which the health services provider provides, including accommodation and board.
The average length of stay – it is the average length of stay in a hospital department in days. It is calculated as an average number of days of treatment per one case of hospitalised patients in a department.