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Hospital bed occupancy rates in England reach dangerously high levels

British medical journal, 2021
NHS England cautioned that in order to treat covid and non-covid patients separately and to meet enhanced infection prevention control measures, hospital capacity has had to be organised in new ways as a result of the pandemic.
A. O'dowd
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Equity in geographical distribution of hospital beds in Khuzestan Province [PDF]

فصلنامه ابن سینا, 2020
Background: Equity in the health system is “people's access to the health services according to their needs, paying for healthcare based on the financial ability, and having an acceptable level of health”. Equitable distribution of hospital beds plays an
Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad, Hamed Dehnavi, Alireza Darrudi   +2 more
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The Economics of a Bed Shortage: Certificate-of-Need Regulation and Hospital Bed Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2021
Certificate-of-need (CON) laws are intended to restrain health care spending by limiting the acquisition of duplicative capital and the initiation of unnecessary services.
M. Mitchell, Thomas Stratmann
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Forecasting COVID-19 impact on hospital bed-days, ICU-days, ventilator-days and deaths by US state in the next 4 months

medRxiv, 2020
Key Points Question: Assuming social distancing measures are maintained, what are the forecasted gaps in available health service resources and number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic for each state in the United States? Findings: Using a statistical
C. Murray
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Development of accreditation modules based on hospital types in Iran: Protocol for a mixed methods study

Journal of Education and Health Promotion
BACKGROUND: Among different tools, accreditation is widely used worldwide to improve the quality and safety of hospital services. In Iran, as in many other countries, the same accreditation standards apply to all hospitals, regardless of their size and ...
Ali Ghaffarian, Azam Cheraghi, Masoud Ferdosi   +2 more
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The effect of time-varying capacity utilization on 14-day in-hospital mortality: a retrospective longitudinal study in Swiss general hospitals

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background High bed-occupancy (capacity utilization) rates are commonly thought to increase in-hospital mortality; however, little evidence supports a causal relationship between the two.
Narayan Sharma, Giusi Moffa, René Schwendimann, Olga Endrich, Dietmar Ausserhofer, Michael Simon   +5 more
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Identifying priorities for primary care investment in Ireland through a population-based analysis of avoidable hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC)

BMJ Open, 2019
Background In 2016, the Irish acute hospital system operated well above internationally recommended occupancy targets. Investment in primary care can prevent hospital admissions of ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs).Objective To measure the ...
Geraldine McDarby, Breda Smyth
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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, Angelo D’Ambrosio, Alexis Papathanassopoulos, Fabian Bürkin, Stephan Hertweck, Vanessa M. Eichel, Alexandra Heininger, Jan Liese, Nico T. Mutters, Silke Peter, Nina Wismath, Sophia Wolf, Hajo Grundmann, Tjibbe Donker   +13 more
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Kanban as a strategy for hospital bed management: analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats [PDF]

Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem
Objective: To analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in using the Kanban method for hospital bed management. Method: This qualitative descriptive study was conducted with 23 healthcare professionals from a university hospital ...
Nara Beatriz Silveira, Rosemary Silva da Silveira, Jamila Geri Tomaschewski Barlem, Simoní Saraiva Bordignon, Emili dos Santos Leão   +4 more
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New bed configurations and discharge timing policies: A hospital‐wide simulation

Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2022
Optimising patient flow is becoming an increasingly critical issue as patient demand fluctuates in healthcare systems with finite capacity. Simulation provides a powerful tool to fine‐tune policies and investigate their impact before any costly ...
Hamed Hassanzadeh, Sankalp Khanna, J. Boyle, Felicity Jensen, Allison Murdoch   +4 more
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