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  • graphing bed occupancy ratio against calendar date

    Hi all

    I have hospital data from a number of institutions with one row per hospital stay, an admission date and a discharge date:

    UNIT DATEIN DATEOUT
    APAH 30oct2012 31oct2012
    APAH 01nov2012 24dec2012
    APAH 07nov2012 14nov2012
    HPPH 12mar2004 19mar2004
    HPPH 08mar2004 18mar2004
    HPPH 28feb2004 04mar2004
    PEAH 05dec2012 01jan2013
    PEAH 05dec2012 12jan2013
    PCAH 23dec2003 03jan2004
    PCAH 15jan2004 21jan2004
    etc.

    I also have an history of the number of existing hospital beds in these institutions.

    DATE NROFBEDS
    01jan2000 70
    01jun2001 75
    01oct2006 80
    etc.

    There is no bed number in the dataset.

    I would like to plot
    1) the number of occupied and unoccupied beds against calendar date
    2) the bed occupancy rate against calendar date

    I have used the following code to obtain the number of patient*days each year, but I would also like to plot monthly and daily values.
    Does any of you know of a less tedious way to solve the problem?
    _________________

    gen id=_n
    gen fail=1
    stset DATEOUT,fail(fail) enter( DATEIN ) id(id)

    forvalue YEAR=1998/2012{
    display date("1/1/`YEAR'", "MDY")
    } // in order to check for the time codes at which I need to split the observations

    stsplit YEAR, at(13880 14245 14610 14976 15341 15706 16071 16437 16802 17167 17532 17898 18263 18628 18993) //splitting on jan 1st each year
    replace YEAR=yofd(Annee_jours) // replaces 1/1/2003 --> 2003, etc

    format _t _t0 %td
    gen DAYS= _t-_t0

    collapse (sum) DAYS,by(YEAR) //gives me the number of patient*days per year

  • #2
    See the thread http://www.statalist.org/forums/foru...-of-dates_loop

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    • #3
      Thank you!
      Very helpful!

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