In 2019, France had the highest average stay of inpatients in hospitals with a value slightly below nine days. Denmark had the lowest average with a value slightly below six days. The difference between the highest and lowest averages was a little above three days.
Average length of stay of hospital inpatients in selected countries in Europe from 2019
Non-expenditure health care data provide information on institutions providing health care in countries, on resources used and on output produced in the framework of health care provision.
An in-patient is a patient who is formally admitted (or 'hospitalized') to an institution for treatment and/or care and stays for a minimum of one night or more than 24 hours in the hospital or other institution providing in-patient care.
The Data for this statistic was taken from the Eurostat Database with the code HLTH_CO_DISCHLS.
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