Average Length of Stay (ALS) of under Five Years Hospitalized Children: A Study on Bangladesh

摘要

This paper aim was to measure Average Length of Stay (ALS) of under five years child to ensure proper utilization of hospitals resource and to facilitate quality health care. Parents of children had to face daunting experience as if most of the hospitals are not concern about the vulnerability of child health. Children under five years old are usually more prone to various infectious diseases leading to frequent hospitalization that causes high mortality and morbidity. To conduct this study, a total 880 records of the discharged patient of targeted population has taken into consideration and data was analyzed by both descriptive and inferential statistics. Average Length of Stay in the hospital was found 4.62 days, 4.53 days and 2.7 days for govt., private and autonomous hospital respectively. Findings of the study will help hospital administration to increase their efficiency, to find out patients inflow and disease pattern with the average length of stay period which will also help the health sector policymaker to take corrective actions to improve service.