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Improve OR-schedule to reduce number of required beds [PDF]
, 2012 After surgery most of the surgical patients have to be admitted in a ward in the hospital. Due to financial reasons and an decreasing number of available nurses in the Netherlands over the years, it is important to reduce the bed usage as much as ...
Bosch, Joel M. +4 more
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Blind estimation of reverberation time in classrooms and hospital wards [PDF]
, 2012 This paper investigates blind Reverberation Time (RT) estimation in occupied classrooms and hospital wards. Measurements are usually made while these spaces are unoccupied for logistical reasons.
Conetta, R +5 more
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A system dynamics-based simulation study for managing clinical governance and pathways in a hospital [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines the development of clinical pathways in a hospital in Australia based on empirical clinical data of patient episodes. A system dynamics (SD)-based decision support system (DSS) is developed and analyzed for this purpose.
Dangerfield, BC, Maliapen, M
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Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2021 Context: All COVID cases and their contacts are considered highly infectious requiring isolation, which blocks the COVID isolation beds and disrupts life in the community.
Sourodip Ghoshdastidar +2 more
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Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study [PDF]
, 2003 OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether the projected 24% reduction in acute bed numbers in Lothian hospitals, which formed part of the private finance initiative (PFI) plans for the replacement Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, is being compensated for by ...
Dunnigan, M.G., Pollock, A.
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Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2002 For many years, average bed occupancy level has been the primary measure that has guided hospital bed capacity decisions at both policy and managerial levels.
Linda V. Green
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Developing a systems and informatics based approach to lifestyle monitoring within eHealth:part I - technology and data management [PDF]
, 2011 Lifestyle monitoring forms a subset of telecare in which data derived from sensors located in the home is used to identify variations in behaviour which are indicative of a change in care needs.
Bradley, David A. +3 more
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Journal 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
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Emergency and on-demand health care: modelling a large complex system
, 2004 This paper describes how system dynamics was used as a central part of a whole-system review of emergency and on-demand health care in Nottingham, England.
Forrester JW +5 more
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Outlier admissions of medical patients: Prognostic implications of outlying patients. The experience of the Hospital of Mestre [PDF]
, 2015 The admission of a patient in wards other than the appropriate ones, known as the patient outlying phenomenon, involves both Medicine and Geriatric Units of many Hospitals.
Aprile, Anna +5 more
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