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MARKETING STRATEGY TO INCREASE BED OCCUPANCY RATE

Jurnal Ners, 2017
Introduction: A hospital is an institution for health care providing treatment by specialized staff and equipment, more often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays.
Purwaningsih Purwaningsih, Esti Yunitasari   +1 more
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Caesarean section rate and postnatal bed occupancy: a retrospective study replacing assumptions with evidence. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res, 2018
BackgroundObstetric units across the UK face resource pressures alongside a rising rate of Caesarean section (CS). It is assumed that this places a further burden in the form of postnatal bed demands.
Roy S, Montgomery Irvine L.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Bed occupancy rates and hospital-acquired infections—should beds be kept empty? [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2012
There is growing evidence that bed occupancy (BO) rates, overcrowding and understaffing influence the spread of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). In this article, a systematic review of the literature is presented, summarizing the evidence on the adverse effects of high BO rates and overcrowding in hospitals on the incidence of HAIs.
Kaier, Klaus, Mutters, Nico T., Frank, Uwe   +2 more
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Assessing performance of Guilan university hospitals (2012) [PDF]

The Journal of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, 2016
Background: Performance assessment could provide information to control and monitor of the current status and activities in hospitals. Objective: To assess the performance of hospitals affiliated with Guilan University of Medical Sciences in 2012 ...
M. Alijanzadeh, S.Gholami , SA. Moosaniaye Zare, S. Asefzadeh   +3 more
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Association Between Rurality and Financial Performance of Public Hospitals in Japan: A Nationwide Cross‐Sectional Study [PDF]

Journal of General and Family Medicine
Background Ensuring sustainable healthcare delivery in rural Japan is a policy priority. However, the relationship between geographic rurality, as measured objectively, and the financial performance of public hospitals essential to these areas remains ...
Kota Sakaguchi, Takafumi Abe, Ayako Erabi, Tomotoshi Iseki, Kaneko Makoto, Yoshihiko Shiraishi, Takashi Watari   +6 more
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Real-Time Hospital Bed Occupancy and Requirements Forecasting [PDF]

, 2015
To ensure better utilization and availability of the healthcare resources healthcare managers, planners and hospital staff need to develop policies. The hospital length of stay (LOS) of patients and therefore the resource requirements depend on many factors such as the covariates that represent the characteristics of the patients. Here we have used the
Garg, Lalit, Mulvaney, Adrian, Gupta, Vipul, Calleja, Neville, 22nd EurOMA International Annual Conference on Operations Management for Sustainable Competitiveness   +4 more
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Remdesivir and dexamethasone as tools to relieve hospital care systems stressed by COVID-19: A modelling study on bed resources and budget impact.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Remdesivir and dexamethasone are the only drugs providing reductions in the lengths of hospital stays for COVID-19 patients. We assessed the impacts of remdesivir on hospital-bed resources and budgets affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. A stochastic agent-
Guillaume Béraud, Jean-François Timsit, Henri Leleu   +2 more
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A Study Of Bed Occupancy Management In The Healthcare System Using The M/M/C Queue And Probability

International Journal for Global Academic & Scientific Research, 2023
Many diverse healthcare systems, including hospitals, laboratories, pharmaceutical business, radiology, organ transplant etc. have been modelled and studied using queuing models. Due to their analytical nature and capacity for speedy resolution, queueing
Rachna Rathore
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hospital bed capacity and usage across secondary healthcare providers in England during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive analysis

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective In this study, we describe the pattern of bed occupancy across England during the peak of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Design Descriptive survey.Setting All non-specialist secondary care providers in England from 27 March27to 5 June ...
Sebastian Vollmer, John M Dennis, Spiros Denaxas, Andrew McGovern, Nick Thomas, Bilal Akhter Mateen, Harrison Wilde, Andrew Duncan, Matt Keeling   +8 more
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Assessing the Performance Indicators of Hospitals Before and After the Pandemic of COVID-19: A Time Series Study from January 2019 to December 2021 [PDF]

Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, 2023
Background: The pandemic of COVID-19 affect all healthcare systems globally, and its effect on different hospital performance indicators has been debated. The study aimed to compare the impacts of COVID-19 on hospital performance indicators using pre-and
Sima Rafiei, Ahad Alizadeh, Rohollah Kalhor, Aidin Aryankhesal, Ahmad Ghashghaee   +4 more
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