Monitoring environmental cleanliness on two surgical wards [PDF]
, 2008 Ten hand-touch sites were screened weekly on two surgical wards over two consecutive six-month periods. The results were analysed using hygiene standards, which specify 1) an aerobic colony count (ACC) >2.5cfu/cm2, and 2) presence of coagulase-positive ...
Dancer, S.J., Robertson, C., White, L.F.
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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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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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The 85% bed occupancy fallacy: The use, misuse and insights of queuing theory
Health Services Management Research, 2020 Queuing theory can and has been used to inform bed pool capacity decision making, though rarely by managers themselves. The insights it brings are also not widely and properly understood by healthcare managers.
N. Proudlove
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Are hygiene standards useful in assessing infection risk? [PDF]
, 2008 We monitored the surface level cleanliness of a five-bedded surgical intensive care unit (SICU) over a ten-week period in order to evaluate proposed hygiene standards.Ten environmental sites within SICU were sampled twice weekly along with collection of ...
Bhalla +13 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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Minimizing bed occupancy variance by scheduling patients under uncertainty
European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling patients in allocated surgery blocks in a Master Surgical Schedule. We pay attention to both the available surgery blocks and the bed occupancy in the hospital wards.
Anne van den Broek d’Obrenan +3 more
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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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Using weighted hospital service area networks to explore variation in preventable hospitalization [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: To demonstrate the use of multiple-membership multilevel models, which analytically structure patients in a weighted network of hospitals, for exploring between-hospital variation in preventable hospitalizations. Data Sources: Cohort of
Falster, Michael O. +2 more
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