The Safety of Hospital Beds [PDF]
Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2015 To explore the safety of the standard and the low hospital bed, we report on a microanalysis of 15 patients’ ability to ingress, move about the bed, and egress. The 15 participants were purposefully selected with various disabilities. Bed conditions were
Janice M. Morse +5 more
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Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2002 For many years, average bed occupancy level has been the primary measure that has guided hospital bed capacity decisions at both policy and managerial levels.
Linda V. Green
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Inequalities in the geographic distribution of hospital beds and doctors in traditional Chinese medicine from 2004 to 2014 [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018 Objectives This study identifies inequities in the provincial-level geographical distribution of traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hospital beds and doctors in China from 2004 to 2014.
Liming Lu, Jingchun Zeng
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Assessing equity in the distribution of hospital beds: evidence from northern Iran
Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 2019 Objective: To assess equity in the distribution of hospital beds in northern Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we investigated the degree of equity by using 2016 census data from 16 cities in Guilan province.
Javad Ebrahimzadeh +7 more
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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 Background 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.
Yousef Chavehpour +3 more
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Estimating Brazilian states’ demands for intensive care unit and clinical hospital beds during the COVID-19 pandemic: development of a predictive model [PDF]
São Paulo Medical Journal, 2021 BACKGROUND: The fragility of healthcare systems worldwide had not been exposed by any pandemic until now. The lack of integrated methods for bed capacity planning compromises the effectiveness of public and private hospitals’ services.
João Flávio de Freitas Almeida +5 more
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Incarceration rates and hospital beds per capita: A cross-national study of 36 countries, 1971–2015 [PDF]
Social Science and Medicine, 2020 Alexander Testa, Mateus R Santos
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Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business, 2023 Latin America's healthcare systems evolved nonlinearly, influenced by diverse models, historical events, and political regimes. Limited knowledge exists despite national-level efforts, indicating a need for long-term statistics to assess the effects of ...
Mauricio Matus-Lopez +1 more
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How to Minimize the Impact of Pandemic Events: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This pandemic is characterized by a high variability in death rate (defined as the ratio between the number of ...
Lorenzo Bigiani +2 more
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Concept and design of automated moving device for healthcare equipment [PDF]
FME Transactions, 2021 The physical wear of health professionals arises mainly from the movement of people with reduced mobility, transport of stretchers, hospital beds and hospital carts. There is a lack of equipment that helps these professionals to move patients in hospital
Faria N.M.S. +3 more
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