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Optimizing Hospital Bed Capacity and Resource Allocation Using Inflow and Outflow Indices for Effective Healthcare Management [PDF]

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
This study analyzes hospital bed capacity and resource allocation using inflow and outflow indices to identify disparities in bed utilization. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for effective healthcare management, particularly in the allocation ...
Jin-Nam Kim PhD, In-Hwan Oh MD, PhD
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Prediction of hospital bed capacity during the COVID− 19 pandemic [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Prediction of the necessary capacity of beds by ward type (e.g. ICU) is essential for planning purposes during epidemics, such as the COVID− 19 pandemic.
Mieke Deschepper, Kristof Eeckloo, Simon Malfait, Dominique Benoit, Steven Callens, Stijn Vansteelandt   +5 more
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A forecasting approach for hospital bed capacity planning using machine learning and deep learning with application to public hospitals

Healthcare Analytics, 2023
Hospital Bed Capacity (HBC) planning affects economic and social sustainability in healthcare through bed capacity efficiency and medical treatment accessibility.
Younes Mahmoudian, Arash Nemati, Abdul Sattar Safaei   +2 more
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Do hospitals need to establish multiple hospital districts? A hospital-based perspective on the benefits of scale

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundDuring the fight against COVID-19, China’s public hospitals played the main role in taking on the most urgent, dangerous and arduous medical treatment and work.
Yuan Zheng, Yuan Zheng, Zhang Yuqing, Zhang Mengping, Li Jun, Li Jun   +5 more
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Assessing the surge capacity of hospitals in Ugandan health care systems in managing the COVID-19 pandemic

European Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction The increasing cases of COVID-19 poses a threat on the over strained health care systems, especially in developing countries. Health care systems might need a surge to accommodate the ever increasing number of COVID1-19 cases.
D. Jephthah, I. Ddumba
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Urgent actions to save lives when ICU bed needs approach or exceed capacity: lessons from Mongolia

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2022
This report illustrates how the Government of Mongolia responded to a rapid surge of COVID-19 cases during 2021 and took urgent actions to minimize preventable mortality. The analytical framework on efficient ICU bed management through a systems approach
Buyantogtokh Batsukh, Bund-Ochir Khishigsaikhan, Dulamragchaa Buyanbaatar, Gerelmaa Danzan, Nansalmaa Munkhtur, Ariuntuya Ochirpurev, Takeshi Nishijima, Howard Sobel, Masahiro Zakoji   +8 more
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Models and methods for determining the optimal number of beds in hospitals and regions: a systematic scoping review

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Determining the optimal number of hospital beds is a complex and challenging endeavor and requires models and techniques which are sensitive to the multi-level, uncertain, and dynamic variables involved. This study identifies and characterizes
Hamid Ravaghi, Saeide Alidoost, Russell Mannion, Victoria D. Bélorgeot   +3 more
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Medical Care Capacity for Influenza Outbreaks, Los Angeles

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
In December 1997, media reported hospital overcrowding and “the worst [flu epidemic] in the past two decades” in Los Angeles County (LAC). We found that rates of pneumonia and influenza deaths, hospitalizations, and claims were substantially higher for ...
Carol A. Glaser, Sabrina Gilliam, William W. Thompson, David E. Dassey, Stephen H. Waterman, Mitchell Saruwatari, Stanley Shapiro, Keiji Fukuda   +7 more
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Assessing the hospital surge capacity of the Kenyan health system in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PLoS ONE, 2020
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic will test the capacity of health systems worldwide and especially so in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this study was to assess the surge capacity of the Kenyan of the Kenyan health system in terms of
Edwine W Barasa, Paul O Ouma, Emelda A Okiro   +2 more
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Bed capacity and surgical waiting lists: a simulation analysis

European Journal of Government and Economics, 2015
Waiting time for elective surgery is a key problem in the current medical world. This paper aims to reproduce, by a Monte Carlo simulation model, the relationship between hospital capacity, inpatient activity, and surgery waiting list size in teaching ...
Manel Antelo, Francisco Reyes Santias, Adela Martinez Calvo   +2 more
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