Recent hospital patient statistics in Japan

The recent announcement of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Japan regarding hospital patient numbers tells us  that in-hospitalization is slightly decreasing by 1.5 % and the period of in-hospitalization is also shortening by 1.2 %.

There were 1 323 803 outpatients in January 2013, increase of 19 834 outpatients from January 2012. But the stay-over-patients have decreased by 15 371 patients from January 2012 and there were 1 279 947 in-hospitalized patients in January 2013. The average in-hospitalization period in January 2013 was 32,7 days and 0,8 days shorter from January 2012.