M3b – DB4 Koch Ch.5 Census
Census deals either a count of a whole population in a healthcare facility or a subgroup. There are
different types of census, as follows:
– Inpatient census is the number of inpatients present at any one time. Inpatient census is usually
taken at midnight (12:00 a.m.), but may be taken at any agreed time. An individual on each
patient care unit is designated to count the patients in that unit at that time.
– Daily census includes the number of inpatients present on the PCU at the census-taking time each
day and an inpatient who were both admitted after the previous census-taking time and
discharged before the next census-taking time.
– A complete master census is compiled after the census from all PCU have been verified.
As one can see, some of the census data is similar to inpatient and daily census, which are also different.
For example, inpatient dealings with inpatient data. It has to be recorded at the same time, a central
