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Models and methods for determining the optimal number of beds in hospitals and regions: a systematic scoping review

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Determining the optimal number of hospital beds is a complex and challenging endeavor and requires models and techniques which are sensitive to the multi-level, uncertain, and dynamic variables involved. This study identifies and characterizes
Hamid Ravaghi   +3 more
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Development inequalities of Romanian physical public healthcare infrastructure: the case of hospital beds [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2021
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the spatial dynamic of public hospital beds in Romania (1992-2018) in order to grasp the potentially uneven development of the health care infrastructure following state policies of austerity and cost reduction ...
Giorgian Guțoiu
doaj   +1 more source

Outlier admissions of medical patients: Prognostic implications of outlying patients. The experience of the Hospital of Mestre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The admission of a patient in wards other than the appropriate ones, known as the patient outlying phenomenon, involves both Medicine and Geriatric Units of many Hospitals.
Aprile, Anna   +5 more
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Equity in geographical distribution of hospital beds in Khuzestan Province [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه 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   +2 more
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Архитектурно-планировочный анализ Демидовского заводского госпиталя: история почти 200-летней эксплуатации [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Article is devoted to history one of the first Ural medical institutions — Demidovsky factory hospital. Authors consider architectural and planning decisions, reconstruction questions, condition of hospital today.
Ananin, M. Y.   +5 more
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Estimating risk when zero events have been observed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Assessing the risk of complications or adverse events following an intervention presents challenges when they have not yet occurred. Suppose, for instance, a chronic shortage of cardiac telemetry beds has prompted a hospital to implement a new policy ...
Dawson, Jesse   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Assessing equity in the distribution of hospital beds: evidence from northern Iran

open access: yesProceedings 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Robotized Bed for Bedridden Patients

open access: yesRobotica & Management, 2023
Longtime bedridden patients may have serious problems from the immobilization and a reposition of their body can be often request at least to mitigate effects in pulmonary complications and pressure ulcers.
Marco Ceccarelli   +4 more
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Quantitative evaluation of the role of Fangcang shelter hospitals in the control of Omicron transmission: A case study of the outbreak in Shanghai, China in 2022

open access: yesOne Health, 2023
Since Omicron began to spread in China, Shanghai has become one of the cities with more severe outbreaks. Under the comprehensive consideration of the vaccine coverage rate, the number of Fangcang shelter hospital beds and the number of designated ...
Sheng-Tao Wang   +5 more
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Long-term care provision, hospital bed blocking, and discharge destination for hip fracture and stroke patients [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
We examine the relationship between long-term care supply (care-home beds and prices) and (i) the probability of being discharged to a care home and (ii) length of stay in hospital for patients admitted to hospital for hip fracture or stroke.
Gaughan, James Michael   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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