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Below are 2 columns of data: Total inpatients days for the departments in your hospital for 3 quarters and the same information for the previous year.

Inpatient Admissions
Department Jan-Oct This Year Jan-Oct Last Year
ICU 567 565
CCU 484 756
Nursery 358 487
Newborn 125 141
OB 987 998
Gen Surgery 787 876
Orthopedics 426 444
Peds 157 175
Total 3891 4442

Management wants you to prepare a report of this data. What can you do with this data to make it into a meaningful management report?