Explain the difference between Inpatient Census and Daily Inpatient Census

What will be an ideal response?


Inpatient census reflects the total number of patients treated at the hospital within a 24-hour period.
The daily inpatient census describes the number of patients who were present at the official census-taking time each day plus the number of patients who were admitted and discharged that same day.

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