[Some aspects regarding the activity analysis of a military hospital]

Providing secondary health care for military staff and related personnel, Clinical Emergency Military Hospital "Dr. Iacob Cihac" it is the biggest hospital among those having the same profile. There are many factors with influence upon hospital's activities. Some factors can be measured (number of beds, the prevalence of a certain disease in population), but also some of them are subjective, creating pressures in hospitals utilization (costs, status of the professionals and hospital, desires of patients and their families). Good statistical information about hospitalized morbidity provides the basis for planning, control and efficient administration and can also serve as an input into the development of more effective preventive health strategies. There are some important differences between public own hospital and military hospital: for public hospitals, the main cause of morbidity is represented of respiratory disease, while for the military hospital on the top are nervous and psychiatric diseases; also, it is different the proportion of inpatients according to age groups - for public hospitals the main proportion of inpatients is aged more than 45-60 years old, but for the military hospital there are also well represented those aged under 29 years old. The differences between the average length of stay in hospitals is due to hospitalization of psychiatric diseases in public hospitals.