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Reallocation of beds to reduce waiting time for cardiac surgery [PDF]
Waiting time for cardiac surgery is a significant problem in the current medical world. The fact that patients length of stay varies considerably makes effective hospital operation a hard job. In this paper, the patients length of stay is analyzed. Three
Akkerman, Renzo, Knip, Marrig
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A note on a compound distribution: the demand for hospital beds [PDF]
, 1970 There has been growing interest in the past few years in the economics of medical services. Due to the nature of the medical industry a number of problems heretofore considered to be of minor importance have assumed major proportions. It is the purpose
Heineke, John
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Bamboo Medical Application: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review presents a structured classification of bamboo's current use in healthcare. It organizes applications into medical textiles and medical devices, with further divisions based on function and level of invasiveness. It also examines material utilization based on bamboo's structural role, highlighting how it supports both protective and ...
Haymanot Beza Lamesgin +3 more
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Journal of Industrial Engineering and ManagementPurpose: This study aims to address the pressing need for accurate forecasting of healthcare resource demands during the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents a novel approach that combines a stochastic Markov model and a discrete event simulation model to ...
Philip Erick Wikman-Jorgensen +9 more
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A Model to Assist Planning the Provision of Hospital Services [PDF]
, 1980 One of the most important health service issues concerns the level of provision of acute hospital beds. To assist resolution of this issue, a model is proposed which simulates how hospital beds are used in terms of admission rates and lengths of stay for
Gibbs, R.J., Rousseau, J.M.
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Monitoring environmental cleanliness on two surgical wards [PDF]
, 2008 Ten hand-touch sites were screened weekly on two surgical wards over two consecutive six-month periods. The results were analysed using hygiene standards, which specify 1) an aerobic colony count (ACC) >2.5cfu/cm2, and 2) presence of coagulase-positive ...
Dancer, S.J., Robertson, C., White, L.F.
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Auditory–Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.In this work, we explore auditory–tactile congruence for synthesizing adaptive vocal pain expressions in robopatients. Using a robopatient platform that integrates vocal pain sounds with palpation forces, we conducted 7680 trials across 20 participants.
Saitarun Nadipineni +4 more
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Optimizing Emergency Department Throughput Using Best Practices to Improve Patient Flow [PDF]
, 2017 Emergency Department (ED) crowding and bottle necks are the reality of hospitals across the country. Patients seeking care and needing inpatient beds via the emergency rooms are facing delays with attaining the right level of care.
Freibott, Puneet, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CCRN-K\u27S
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Early Radiation Therapy Response Assessment Using Multi‐Scale Photoacoustic Imaging
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Tomographic and mesoscopic photoacoustics capture intratumoural features of radioresistance and response. ABSTRACT There is a critical unmet clinical need to identify biomarkers that predict and detect radiation therapy (RT) response in cancer. Using the unique capabilities of multi‐scale photoacoustic imaging (PAI) to depict tumor oxygenation and ...
Thierry L. Lefebvre +12 more
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Estimation of hospital beds via a model,based on daily census in ardabil hospitals [PDF]
background: utilization in Islamic republic of Iran,made it necessary to investigate the hospital beds efficiency intensively.Thereore, the ministry of health and medical education conducted a research on this topic in 1994to1996.
امانی, فیروز +2 more
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