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A Scalable Forecasting Framework to Predict COVID-19 Hospital Bed Occupancy
We present a scalable forecasting framework with a Monte Carlo simulation to forecast the short-term bed occupancy of patients with confirmed and suspected COVID-19 in intensive care units and regular wards.
Jakob Heins +4 more
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Improve OR-schedule to reduce number of required beds [PDF]
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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This study integrates the job demands-resources model and authentic leadership theory to test the general hypothesis that authentic leadership is a job resource that enables flourishing and performance in healthcare teams. Furthermore, this article tests
Pedro Marques-Quinteiro +3 more
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Forecasting local hospital bed demand for COVID-19 using on-request simulations
Accurate forecasting of hospital bed demand is crucial during infectious disease epidemics to avoid overwhelming healthcare facilities. To address this, we developed an intuitive online tool for individual hospitals to forecast COVID-19 bed demand.
Raisa Kociurzynski +13 more
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BackgroundOver the last decade, increasing numbers of emergency department attendances and an even greater increase in emergency admissions have placed severe strain on the bed capacity of the National Health Service (NHS) of the ...
Kanan Shah +5 more
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Hospital bed occupancy rates in England reach dangerously high levels
NHS England cautioned that in order to treat covid and non-covid patients separately and to meet enhanced infection prevention control measures, hospital capacity has had to be organised in new ways as a result of the pandemic.
A. O'dowd
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Addressing Overestimation and Insensitivity in the 85% Target for Average bed Occupancy.
BACKGROUND An established finding suggests that, in balancing variability in patient demand and length of stay, an average bed occupancy of 85% should be targeted for acute hospital wards.
Adrian Pratt, R. Wood
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Dear Editor, The latest encounter that I had with the mysterious term ‘bed occupancy rate’ was when I had to interact with a high power committee dealing with rationalisation of medical establishments. For them, that term was as relieving as measuring ‘weight by kilogram or measuring length by meter’. I sulked in surprise.
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Primary triage nurses do not divert patients away from the emergency department at times of high in-hospital bed occupancy - a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Background: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is frequently described in terms of input- throughput and output. In order to reduce ED input, a concept called primary triage has been introduced in several Swedish EDs.
Fredrik Jonsson +5 more
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Estimating bed occupancy [PDF]
Sir: Peter Greengross' recent article on the pressure on acute adult psychiatric beds was a useful attempt to quantify an important problem ( Psychiatric Bulletin , February 2000, 24 , 54-56).
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