El FCE es una unidad estadística.

Aquí encontrarás información del Department of Health (UK)

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) provides information about the admitted patient treatment delivered by NHS hospitals in England. This includes day case surgery, but currently excludes out-patients. NHS Trusts submit their data to the NHS-wide Clearing Service for onward transmission to commissioners and HES is built from a national, annual extract of these records. The data are then cleaned, validated and new fields derived.

The usual unit of measurement is the Finished Consultant Episode (FCE). This is a continuous period of in-patient care administered by a particular consultant within a single hospital provider (normally a NHS Trust). If responsibility for an admitted patient is passed to another consultant, or if the patient is transferred to another NHS Trust, a new FCE will commence. Also, it is not uncommon for a given person to be admitted to hospital more than once during a year. For these reasons, the number of FCEs shown in the dataset exceeds the number of individual persons treated within the year.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics...

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Legislación sanitaria
http://www.cfnavarra.es/salud/anales/textos/vol21/n3/legis1....

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Gemma