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Developing a Hospital Bed Distribution Model in Iran [PDF]

Jorjani Biomedicine Journal, 2018
Background and objectives: The development and distribution of hospital beds, regardless of effective factors, may downgrade equity in access to health services through imposing costs of inefficiency. This study aimed to develop a hospital bed distribution model in Iran in order to facilitate the optimal and cost-effective development and distribution ...
Anis Abbasi, Amir Ashkan Nasiri Pour*, Seyyed Jamalodin Tabibi, Pouran Raeisi   +3 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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Women's secure hospital services: national bed numbers and distribution [PDF]

Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 2012
A mapping exercise as part of a pathway study of women in secure psychiatric services in the England and Wales was conducted. It aimed to (i) establish the extent and range of secure service provision for women nationally and (ii) establish the present and future care needs and pathways of care of women mentally disordered offenders (MDO) currently in ...
Harty, M, Somers, N, Bartlett, A
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Inequality in geographical distribution of hospitals and hospital beds in densely populated metropolitan cities of Iran [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
This study aims to assess geographical distribution of hospitals and extent of inequalities in hospital beds against socioeconomic status (SES) of residents of five metropolitan cities in Iran.A cross-sectional analysis was conducted to measure geographical inequality in hospital and hospital bed distributions of 68 districts in five metropolitan ...
Yousef Chavehpour, Arash Rashidian, Abraha Woldemichael, Amirhossein Takian   +3 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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Equity in geographical distribution of hospital beds in Khuzestan Province

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 important role in achieving the goal of universal health coverage. The purpose of this study was to
Mosadeghrad, Ali Mohammad, Dehnavi, Hamed, Darrudi, Alireza   +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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Hospital bed capacity across in Tunisia hospital during the first 4 waves of the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis

Infectious Medicine, 2023
Background: In March 2020, the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic, and Tunisia implemented a containment and targeted screening strategy. The country's public health policy has since focused on managing hospital beds. Methods: The study analyzed the bed
Slimane BenMiled, Chiraz Borgi, Mohamed Hsairi, Naoufel Somrani, Amira Kebir   +4 more
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