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Hospital Costs and Excess Bed Capacity: A Statistical Analysis [PDF]

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1996
This paper develops and estimates a cost model for U.S. hospitals, analyzing the cost of excess bed capacity. A new estimate is worth making for at least two reasons. Recent changes in the economic environment of hospitals have caused their utilization rates to fall sharply, making previous estimates inaccurate. Second, we employ econometric techniques
Keeler, Theodore E., Ying, John S.
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Bed Surge Capacity in Saudi Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 2021
AbstractObjectives:To assess the hospital beds and intensive care unit (ICU) beds with a ventilator surge capacity of the health system in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.Methods:This study used relevant data from the National Health Emergency Operation Center to estimate general hospital and ICU bed ...
Alqahtani, Fahad, Khan, Anas, Alowais, Jalal, Alaama, Tareef, Jokhdar, Hani   +4 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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Policy Analysis on Determining Hospital Bed Capacity in Light of Universal Health Care

Acta medica Philippina, 2020
Background. Through the years of improving quality health service delivery, hospital bed capacity in the Philippines has remained to be a persistent challenge.
Ma. Esmeralda C. Silva, Ma-Ann Zarsuelo, Marianne Joy N. Naria-Maritana, Zenith D. Zordilla, H. Lam, M. A. Mendoza, A. K. Buan, Frances Karen A. Nuestro, Janvic A. Dela Rosa, C. Padilla   +9 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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Prescription factors influencing baloxavir prescription during the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 seasons: a administrative database study in Japan

Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences, 2023
Background We aimed to evaluate the factors associated with baloxavir prescription in Japanese hospitals using a health insurance claim-based database (MDV analyzer), during the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 influenza seasons.
Naomi Fujiwara, Takashi Fujiwara, Yuya Ise   +2 more
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Modelling the impact of local reactive school closures on critical care provision during an influenza pandemic [PDF]

, 2011
Despite the fact that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza strain was less severe than had been feared, both seasonal epidemics of influenza-like-illness and future influenza pandemics have the potential to place a serious burden on health services.
Baguelin, Marc, Eames, Ken T. D., Edmunds, W. John, Hens, Niel, Hoek, Albert Jan Van, House, Thomas A., Keeling, Matthew James, Melegaro, Alessia, Read, Jonathan M., Sadique, Zia, White, Peter J.   +10 more
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Hospital bed occupancy rate is an independent risk factor for COVID-19 inpatient mortality: a pandemic epicentre cohort study

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction COVID-19 first struck New York City in the spring of 2020, resulting in an unprecedented strain on our healthcare system and triggering multiple changes in public health policy governing hospital operations as well as therapeutic approaches ...
F. Castagna, X. Xue, O. Saeed, R. Kataria, Y. Puius, Snehal R. Patel, Mario J. Garcia, A. Racine, D. Sims, U. Jorde   +9 more
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Optimizing inpatient bed management in a rural community-based hospital: a quality improvement initiative

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Appropriate use of available inpatient beds is an ongoing challenge for US hospitals. Historical capacity goals of 80% to 85% may no longer serve the intended purpose of maximizing the resources of space, staff, and equipment.
Brian N. Bartlett, Nadine N. Vanhoudt, Hanyin Wang, Ashley A. Anderson, Danielle L. Juliar, Jennifer M. Bartelt, April D. Lanz, Pawan Bhandari, Gokhan Anil   +8 more
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