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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 +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 +4 more
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Bed occupancy not an index of efficiency [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1981 It is not possible to achieve high bed occupancy in an acute children's ward without serious detriment to the local community. Analysis of a year's admissions shows that `short stays' and high turnover rates must produce low occupancy, and that this represents efficient management.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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
Scientific Reports, 2023 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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JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021 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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Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2004 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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Estimating bed occupancy [PDF]
Psychiatric Bulletin, 2000 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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Lowering bed occupancy: a life-saving intervention? [PDF]
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2015 High levels of bed occupancy intuitively seem to be bad for patient care. Apart from the direct consequences of full wards and rapid turnover, the knock-on effects for the emergency department (ED) are likely to include exit block and consequent crowding, with associated threats to patient safety. Observational evidence suggests that high bed occupancy
Goodacre, S., Campbell, M.
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AIDS and hospital bed occupancy: an overview [PDF]
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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