Since hospitals are moving to a larger proportion of outpatient services, the inpatient day is no longer used as a measure of hospital output.

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While still in use, the patient day is being replaced by the adjusted patient day, which is an index of the total output of a hospital and takes the inpatient days produced in the hospital for a given time period and inflates them to account for an estimate of the relative value of outpatient services provided during the same interval.

Since Hospitals Are Moving to a Larger Proportion of Outpatient