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AIDS and hospital bed occupancy: an overview

Tropical Medicine & International Health, 1997
In several countries of sub‐Saharan Africa more than 10% of the adult population are infected with HIV, while in large towns such as Kampala, Lusaka, Blantyre, Kigali and Harare this proportion exceeds 25%. One of the most obvious consequences is the increased occupancy of hospital beds by patients with HIV infection, perhaps to the exclusion of ...
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A simulation model of bed-occupancy in a critical care unit

Journal of Simulation, 2010
This article focuses on the Critical Care Unit (CCU) of a large teaching hospital. The aim of the study was to optimise the number of beds available in order to minimise cancellations of Elective surgery and maintain an acceptable level of bed-occupancy.
Jeff D. Griffiths, Mari Jones, M. S. Read, Janet E. Williams   +3 more
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Hospital bed occupancy demystified

British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2011
Part one of this series investigated the adequacy of current models used to forecast bed demand. This part explores the issues surrounding the correct level of occupancy required to deliver effective and safe health care. Economy of scale as explained by queuing theory is a significant factor in understanding bed occupancy.
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Novel indicator for the assessment of hospital bed occupancy

Orvosi Hetilap, 2011
In the past decades the bed occupancy of hospitals in Hungary has been calculated from the average of in-patient days and the number of beds during a given period of time. This is the only measure being currently looked at when evaluating the performance of hospitals and changing their bed capacity.
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Hospital Occupancy — Bed Complement

1981
A hospital, like any facility or subfacility providing services on an unscheduled basis, must balance the productivity of high utilization with the probability of being fully occupied and having to refuse service. The administrator has essentially three controls upon these two measures: the bed complement, the admissions of elective patients, and the ...
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Medical bed occupancy and cancelled operations

British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2014
594 British Journal of Healthcare Management 2014 Vol 20 No 12 © 2 01 4 M A H ea lth ca re L td service? Insight can be gained from a unique survey of daily (midnight) occupancy of the medical bed pool in Scottish hospitals and how this related to cancelled surgical operations during that day.
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Bed occupancy, efficiency and infectious outbreaks

British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2015
396 British Journal of Healthcare Management 2015 Vol 21 No 8 © 2 01 5 M A H ea lth ca re L td increase in activity is revealed as a ramp, where the foot of the ramp marks the onset of the step-change and the point 12 months on from the foot of the ramp gives the value of the steplike change.
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Volatility in bed occupancy for emergency admissions

British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2011
The volatility associated with the average bed occupancy for emergency admissions is shown to follow complex long-term patterns. Such patterns in volatility arise from the interaction between the environment and human physiological and immunological processes. Hospital average bed occupancy should be sufficient to cope with the periods associated with
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Bed occupancy: the impact on hospital planning

British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2011
The ongoing rise in medical emergency admissions seen around the world over the past few decades has never been fully explained. Long-term trends in hospital bed occupancy in England, Canada and Australia are examined to show that a recurring pattern of time-specific increases appears to apply.
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Parameters of bed occupancy of intensive care units in Hungary

Orvosi Hetilap, 2011
According to the Semmelweis Plan for Saving Health Care, ”the capacity of the national network of intensive care units in Hungary is one but not the only bottleneck of emergency care at present”. Author shows on the basis of data reported to the health insurance that not on a single calendar day more than 75% of beds in intensive care units were ...
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