Average IV Line per Patient per Day

[cothmer]

I need some sort of formula or something that I could add to a crosstab or possibly a running total, etc...that will give me the average number of IV lines inserted into patients per day. I have the placement date\time and the type of line. So patient A may have had 3 lines inserted while in the hospital and patient B may have had 1 and patient C had 10. I need the average of these. Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Not sure what you want.

1 Average lines in a day for all patients. So in you example if that was one day the average would be 14/3 = 4.67

Or

2 Average per patient for each day So in you example if the period was 3 days

Patient A = 0.33/day

Patient B = 1/day

Patient C = 3.33/day

If 1 then just group patients by Day in group footer add this formula

@average

count(Insertions, datefield "daily")/Count(patientID, DateField, "daily")

If 2 group by patient and create a similar formula but this time counting days using Datediff() function

Ian