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Bill Elerding[_2_] Bill Elerding[_2_] is offline
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Default Time Range Summary - parse data

Greatings from the SF Bay Area. I'm lost on a particular problem.

I want to summarize patient visits to our ED and Clinics. I'd like to take
an arrival-to-discharge time, and spread the
minutes/hours they were 'in-department' during the day. For example, Patient
'A' presents at 14:15 and is discharged at 16:25. I'd like to allocate his
time as .75 hours (or 45 monutes) between 14:00 and 14:59, 1 hour between
15:00 and 15:59, and .42 hours (25") between 16:00 and 16:59. I haven't a
clue how to efficiently do this. Thanks in advance for help on this...
hopefully it will shorten waits in the Emergency Room.

I envision a spreadsheet delineating Hour of Day on the top row, and
patients down column 'A'. Each patient stay would be noted as hours or
minutes in a row over the appropriate hour columns. -Bill