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2022 insights on hospital bed distribution in Saudi Arabia: evaluating needs to achieve global standards [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Equitable geographical distribution of health resources, such as hospital beds, is fundamental in ensuring public accessibility to healthcare services.
Waleed Kattan, Noor Alshareef
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Regional disparities and multidimensional determinants of hospital bed allocation in China: spatial evidence for public health policymaking [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionMedical resource distribution in China exhibits marked spatial disparities, with hospital bed allocation demonstrating particularly pronounced regional inequalities.
Ke Hu, Xingjin Yang, Yu Cai, Chaojie Li, Xing Zhang, Di Xiao, Mingyang Yu   +6 more
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Addressing geographical disparities in the allocation of hospital human resources: an examination of health inequalities in Iran [PDF]

Human Resources for Health
Background Human resources are fundamental to improving both service quality and patient outcomes. Given the critical role of accurate data on workforce distribution as a key hospital resource in planning and policymaking, this study aims to assess ...
Hakimeh Mostafavi, Efat Mohamadi, Amirhossein Takian, Ahad Bakhtiari, Jawad Jafarzadeh, Alireza Olyaeemanesh   +5 more
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Hospital bed supply and inequality as determinants of maternal mortality in China between 2004 and 2016

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Driven by the government’s firm commitment to promoting maternal health, maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in China has achieved a remarkable reduction over the past 25 years.
Fan Tian, Jay Pan
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Equity in distribution of hospital beds in Iran [PDF]

مجله علمی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی کردستان, 2020
Background and Aim: Equitable distribution of health system resourcesand hospital bedsis crucial for an acceptable level of health for all the people of the country.The aim of this study was to examine the equity in distribution of hospital beds in Iran ...
Alimohammad Mosadeghrad, Ghasem Janbabaei, Behzad Kalantari, Alireza Darrudi, Hamed Dehnavi   +4 more
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Hospital length of stay throughout bed pathways and factors affecting this time: A non-concurrent cohort study of Colombia COVID-19 patients and an unCoVer network project.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Predictions of hospital beds occupancy depends on hospital admission rates and the length of stay (LoS) according to bed type (general ward -GW- and intensive care unit -ICU- beds). The objective of this study was to describe the LoS of COVID-19 hospital
Lina Marcela Ruiz Galvis, Carlos Andrés Pérez Aguirre, Juan Pablo Pérez Bedoya, Oscar Ignacio Mendoza Cardozo, Noël Christopher Barengo, Juan Pablo Sánchez Escudero, Johnatan Cardona Jiménez, Paula Andrea Diaz Valencia   +7 more
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Quintile distribution of health resourcing in Africa

Cogent Medicine, 2021
Africa has a limited health workforce that tackles the morbidity of complex, variable and highly prevalent diseases, often with limited resourcing. This study assesses health worker resourcing in African regions and countries stratified in quintiles (Q).
Marlon E. Cerf
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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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The association between higher nurse staffing standards in the fee schedules and the geographic distribution of hospital nurses: A cross-sectional study using nationwide administrative data

BMC Nursing, 2017
Background In Japan, the revision of the fee schedules in 2006 introduced a new category of general care ward for more advanced care, with a higher staffing standard, a patient-to-nurse ratio of 7:1.
Noriko Morioka, Jun Tomio, Toshikazu Seto, Yasuki Kobayashi   +3 more
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Microbial population of Staphyloccous aureus from inanimate surfaces in a general hospital environment in Rivers State, Nigeria

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2018
The isolation of Staphylococus aureus from inanimate objects in a General hospital in Rivers State was studied. Swabs were obtained from different sources comprising of; toilet seat, floor, switch, side rail bed, side rail chair, door handle, sink tap ...
O.E. Agbagwa, C.Q. Onyebule
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