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Number of transfers / MIC bed
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
Figure 19. Intermediate care activity and transfers reception by maternities
with a MIC-service
0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Number of intermediate care women / MIC bed
Source: Merged IMA and MKG/RCM Data 01/10/2003 – 30/09/2004
Figure 19 shows that the majority of the MIC-services receive from 4 to 8 transfers per
MIC-bed and this does not seem related to the ratio of intermediate care women
treated per MIC-bed. Two MIC-services receive more than 12 transfers per MIC-bed
whereas 2 MIC-services receive less than 2 transfers per MIC-bed.
It is important to notice that the transfers analysed here are those that occur from
hospital to hospital during an hospitalisation. Other referrals of high risk pregnancies to
MIC service that occur in ambulatory care during pregnancy at the ob-gyn or the
women initiative are not recorded in our data. These ambulatory referrals may
influence the amount of transfers during hospitalisation as more ambulatory transfers
would generate less transfers during hospitalisation.