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Hospital bed occupancy demystified
British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2011Part 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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Hospital bed occupancy: more than queuing for a bed
Medical Journal of Australia, 2010Timely access to safe hospital care remains a major concern. Target bed-occupancy rates have been proposed as a measure of the ability of a hospital to function safely and effectively. High bed-occupancy rates have been shown to be associated with greater risks of hospital-associated infection and access block and to have a negative impact on staff ...
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Levelling bed occupancy: reconfiguring surgery schedules via simulation
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2018Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present simulation modelling to reconfigure a 700-bed Hong Kong hospital’s master surgery schedule (MSS), aiming to improve patient flow, capacity management and resource allocation through levelling bed occupancy within the hospital.
Kenneth Yip, Louisa Leung, Deacons Yeung
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Hospital Occupancy — Bed Complement
1981A 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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Bed occupancy, efficiency and infectious outbreaks
British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2015396 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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Medical bed occupancy and cancelled operations
British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2014594 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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Curious patterns in hospital bed occupancy data
British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2020In a preface to his soon-to-be-published research, Rodney P Jones discusses the thus far unexplained patterns revealed in a long-term analysis of hospital bed occupancy, along with other healthcare data, and what this could mean for hospital bed planning.
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Links between bed occupancy, deaths and costs
British Journal of Healthcare Management, 2015544 British Journal of Healthcare Management 2015 Vol 21 No 11 © 2 01 5 M A H ea lth ca re L td (expected/normal) baseline (Jones and Beauchant, 2015). While charts have been previously presented showing step-like behaviour in deaths, A&E attendances and emergency admissions for the whole of England, Figure 1 shows running total deaths in two roughly ...
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