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Higher Inpatient Medical Surgical Bed Occupancy Extends Admitted Patients’ Stay [PDF]

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2009
OBJECTIVE: Determine the effect that increased medical surgical (med/surg) bed occupancy has on the time interval from admission order to arrival in the bed for the patients admitted from the emergency department (ED).METHODS: This retrospective ...
Krall, Scott P   +2 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on critical care utilization in Japan: a nationwide inpatient database study

open access: yesJournal of Intensive Care, 2022
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted critical care services worldwide. Examining how critical care systems responded to the COVID-19 pandemic on a national level will be useful in setting future critical care plans ...
Hiroyuki Ohbe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Health promotion Plan on the Performance of Hospitals: Evidences from East of Iran

open access: yesHealth Technology Assessment in Action, 2021
Background and Objectives: Hospitals are the largest and most costly operating units of health systems and their share of current public expenditures in the health sector is between 50 to 80 percent. Higher hospital's efficiency will result in better use
Javad Ghoddoosi Nejad   +2 more
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MediSmart: An Integrated AI Framework for Hospital Management and Patient Safety [PDF]

open access: yesITM Web of Conferences
Hospitals manage an array of clinical activities, from assessing patient symptoms accu- rately to prescribing safe medications and managing clinical resources efficiently.
Suryawanshi Gaurav   +7 more
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Estimating the Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Acute and ICU Hospital Bed Usage in an Influenza Season under Endemic COVID-19 in the US

open access: yesVaccines, 2022
In 2021–2022, influenza vaccine coverage in the US dropped below pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels. Cocirculation of COVID-19 and influenza could place a substantial burden on hospital utilization in future seasons, particularly given the reduced exposure to ...
Van Hung Nguyen   +1 more
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Free eye screening in the University of Benin teaching hospital Benin-City, Nigeria

open access: yesInternational Journal of Medicine and Health Development, 2004
Aims: To determine if free eye screening can improve clinic attendance, bed occupancy and detect previously unrecognized diseases in tertiary hospitals.
A I Osahon, A E Omoti, S C Otoibhi
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Hospitalization forecast to inform COVID-19 pandemic planning and resource allocation using discrete event simulation

open access: yesJournal of Industrial Engineering and Management
Purpose: This study aims to address the pressing need for accurate forecasting of healthcare resource demands during the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents a novel approach that combines a stochastic Markov model and a discrete event simulation model to ...
Philip Erick Wikman-Jorgensen   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Case fatality inequalities of critically ill COVID-19 patients according to patient-, hospital- and region-related factors: a French nationwide study

open access: yesAnnals of Intensive Care, 2021
Background The COVID-19 sanitary crisis inflicted different challenges regarding the reorganization of the human and logistic resources, particularly in intensive care unit (ICU).
Antoine Guillon   +7 more
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The cross-scale correlations between individuals and nations in COVID-19 mortality

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
It is challenging to quantitatively clarify the determining medical and social factors of COVID-19 mortality, which varied by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude across countries.
Lei Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bed demand and occupancy within the Brazilian National Health System for the most common types of cancer in Brazil, from 2018 to 2021: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Objective To analyze bed demand and occupancy within the Brazilian National Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS) for the main types of cancer in Brazil, from 2018 to 2021.
Mariana Araujo Neves Lima   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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