Age considered the dividing line separating adults and children
What is 14?
100
More easily measured: birth weight or gestational age
What is birth weight?
100
One or more surgical procedures performed at one time for one patient using a common approach or for a common purpose
What is a surgical operation?
200
Beds that may be used as either acute or long-term care beds
What are swing beds?
200
An amount less than 1
What is a decimal?
200
Included in a gross death rate but not in a net death rate
What are deaths under 48 hours?
200
Name one of the two categories into which hospital inpatients are most commonly placed
What is Adults and Children (or Newborn)?
300
The number of available hospital inpatient beds, both occupied and vacant, on any given day
What is bed complement (or inpatient bed count)?
300
Term that is synonymous with discharge days
What is length of stay?
300
The normal census-taking time: noon, midnight, or whenever the nurse feels like it
What is midnight?
300
Facts and data regarding a patient's care that are entered at the point of care
What is primary data?
400
Describes and analyzes a given group without drawing any conclusions or inferences about a larger group
What is descriptive statistics?
400
The number of available hospital newborn bassints, both occupied and vacant, on a given day
What is newborn bassinet count?
400
The neonatal period that begins with the 24th hour of life and lasts through 6 days, 23 hours, and 59 minutes: Neonatal Period I, Neonatal Period II, or Neonatal Period III
What is Neonatal Period II?
400
Each day counts as a discharge day except ___________