18-2  Basic Statistics of Hospitals above County Level
       
Item 2005 2006 2007
       
Number of Medical Units                               (unit) 1137 1170 1286
Number of Patients Treated   (10 000 person-times) 8496 8976 9924
 Out-Patients and Emergency  7938 8497 9385
   Patients                               (10 000 person-times)
 Casualties                                                   (person) 11923 14021 14497
Number of Inpatients             (10 000 person-times) 235 216 263
  Casualties In-Patient                                 (person) 7411 3941 4197
Number of People Having  402 497 660
  Physical Checkup                        (10 000 persons)
Hospital Admissions                                   (person) 4162627 4584064 5322462
Number of People Discharged 4179104 4556271 5318355
  from Hospitals                                          (person)
 Recovered                                                  (person) 2260118 3875128 2751655
 Improved                                                   (person) 1402750 1820049 1934480
 Unrecovered                                              (person) 110368 138953 136835
 Dead                                                          (person) 39502 44191 45760
Number of Operations 113 128 150
  on Inpatients                       (10 000 person-times)
Beds Owned by Hospitals at the Year-end       (set) 179496 258917 196475
Total Number of Beds Used  5956 6164 6868
  at Midnight                              (10 000 bed-days)
Average Number of Beds Used Every Day      (set) 163167 168887 188168
Total Number of Beds Occupied (10 000 bed-days) 4338 4664 5376
Total Number of Beds for  4038 4387 5228
  Patients Discharged                 (10 000 bed-days)
Care Rate                                                         (%) 62.9 61.55 60.19
Improvement Rate                                           (%) 33.6 34.92 36.37
Death Rate                                                       (%) 1.0 0.93 0.86
Turnover of Beds                                         (time) 25.6 26.98 28.3
Days of Beds in Use                                      (day) 265.9 276.14 285.7
Utilization Rate of Beds                                  (%) 72.8 75.65 78.27
Average Hospitalization Period                    (day) 9.7 9.63 9.8