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The hospital bed is a scarce resource, which makes it difficult for hospital administrators to manage. Predicting the total number of discharged inpatients (or available beds) from one specific department can improve the management and allocation of hospital bed resources. The objectives of this study are to a) predict the daily inpatient discharges of Nephrology department, b) provide decision support...
For hospitals where decisions regarding acceptable rates of elective admissions are made in advance based on expected available bed capacity and emergency requests, accurate predictions of inpatient bed capacity are especially useful for capacity reservation purposes. As given, the remaining unoccupied beds at the end of each day, bed capacity of the next day can be obtained by examining the forecasts...
Background: Due to the rapid development in industrialization and urbanization, air pollution has aggravated in the past few years, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has become the world's fourth leading cause of death. Through the study of factors affecting medical cost, we find that there is a strong correlation between medical cost and length of stay (LOS). Therefore, it is necessary...
In the appointment of medical resource, The reserved capacity of the emergency patients plays a key role in medical appointment scheduling. This paper which is based on the massive data gathered by CT department in West China Hospital of Sichuan University analyzes the occupation data of CT department. The data are gathered in two ways: by hour and by day, and then this paper sets a model of them...
Emergency department (ED) crowding has developed into a risk that severely impacts on the emergency medical service quality and access to health care. With regard to the essential cause of crowding, subjectively, it results from low efficiency of resource collocation or incomprehension of the patient flow rule; objectively, arises from the low patient flow rate. Hence, the prediction of patient flow...
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