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Modelling for the planning and management of bed capacities in hospitals
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2002Summary: The internal dynamics of a hospital represent a complex non-linear structure. Planning and management of bed capacities must be evaluated within an environment of uncertainty, variability and limited resources. A common approach is to plan and manage capacities based on simple deterministic spreadsheet calculations.
Harper, P.R., Shahani, A.K.
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Forecast-Based Newsvendor Models for Hospital Bed Capacity Management
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021Hospitals worldwide share common challenges in finding the optimal number of patient beds in advance, which is referred to as the bed capacity management problem. Effective management cannot be achieved without an appropriate understanding of the stochastic nature of patient demands.
Xueru Xu, Li Luo 0001, Xiang Zhong
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The Dwindling Supply Of Empty Beds: Implications For Hospital Surge Capacity
Health Affairs, 2008The threat of mass-casualty disasters raises concern about the adequacy of hospitals' surge capacity. This paper measures surge capacity as the number of empty staffed beds per capita at the county level and compares it to a disaster-planning benchmark released by the federal government. The percentage of the U.S.
Derek, DeLia, Elizabeth, Wood
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Hospital Bed Surge Capacity in the Event of a Mass-Casualty Incident
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2005AbstractIntroduction:Traditional strategies to determine hospital bed surge capacity have relied on cross-sectional hospital census data, which underestimate the true surge capacity in the event of a mass-casualtyincident.Objective:To determine hospital bed surge capacity for the County more accurately using physician and nurse manager assessments for ...
Daniel P, Davis +5 more
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Tapping into hidden hospital bed capacity.
Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, 2003Using existing resources more efficiently can help hospitals relieve their bed-capacity problems cost-effectively. Hospitals need to: Measure performance in key areas that affect patient flow and capacity Identify the drivers of capacity constraints and key opportunities for performance improvement Understand how patients flow through the hospital to ...
Ann, Kirby, Amy, Kjesbo
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[Efficient use of the hospital bed capacity].
Voenno-meditsinskii zhurnal, 2004The development of rather precise methods for determining the efficiency of health service activity as well as the measures directed to maintain and to strengthen the population health is extremely difficult but very important task. However till now the problems of using the medical resources more effectively, the choice of well-founded criteria and ...
G P, Lobanov, V N, Tregubov
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A systems approach for hospital inpatient bed capacity planning
2009 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2009Evaluating best strategies across the organization has been a major challenge for healthcare decision makers. The complex nature of patient flow and the unpredictability involved makes discrete event simulation an ideal tool for evaluating strategic decisions in hospital inpatient capacity planning.
Balagopal Gopakumar +5 more
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Optimal prices and costs for hospitals with excess bed capacity
Applied Economics, 2000This paper analyses theoretically and empirically issues in optimal pricing with excess hospital capacity, and then applies the analysis to the issue as to whether Medicare and Medicaid payments cover the marginal costs of treating patients of each type.
Ennis, Sean +2 more
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Effect of Short-Term Hospitalization on Functional Capacity in Patients Not Restricted to Bed
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2007It has been suggested that long-term bed rest induces significant changes in most organ systems. However, few studies have focused on the effect of short-term hospitalization. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of short-term hospitalization on functional capacity in patients not restricted to bed.We evaluated 78 patients before and
Milena M, Suesada +2 more
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Medicare Hospital Classifications and the Effect on Bed Capacity Decisions in U.S. Hospitals
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013I examine whether or not capacity planning decisions are influenced by a 100-bed threshold used by U.S. Medicare to classify hospitals as “large” or “small” for payment purposes. I also examine the role of the institutional environment in directing hospital actions in this setting.
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