ReviewClinical medicine (London, England)2010
Managing capacity and demand across the patient journey.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
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- [Technological healthcare management arrangements: challenges for contemporary hospitals].Cadernos de saude publica · 2025Article
- Operation capacity: how one hospital system improved access and outcomes for patients.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2025Article
- Development of a maturity model for demand and capacity management in healthcare.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: Supporting a hospital in difficulty: -experience of a '-buddying' agreement to implement a new medical pathway.Future healthcare journal · 2019Article
- Improving accessibility for outpatients in specialist clinics: reducing long waiting times and waiting lists with a simple analytic approach.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Not all waits are equal: an exploratory investigation of emergency care patient pathways.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- Patients with acute stroke are less likely to be admitted directly to a stroke unit when hospital beds are scarce: A Swedish multicenter register study.European stroke journal · 2017Article
- The probability of readmission within 30 days of hospital discharge is positively associated with inpatient bed occupancy at discharge--a retrospective cohort study.BMC emergency medicine · 2015Article
- Is follow-up capacity the current NHS bottleneck?Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2011Review
- Understanding the current state of patient flow in a hospital.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2010Article
- A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Discharges before Noon at a Pediatric Hospital.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
- Improving Early Discharges With an Electronic Health Record Discharge Optimization Tool.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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Abstract
Bed availability remains the main operational focus for managers and clinicians on a day-to-day basis within the NHS. There is now published research that establishes a lack of bed stock is too simplistic an explanation of the situation. Other reasons for bed shortage include the daily and weekly lack of synchronisation of admissions and discharges, the large variation in bed occupancy over time, the downtime during weekends and holiday periods, wasted time during inpatient stays and the variation in patient length of stay. So far most of what little work has been done has focused on the front end of the process, to 'buffer' unplanned admissions through the use of short-stay facilities, such as medical assessment units, as a short-term solution. This paper reviews the evidence for the hypothesis that bed availability problems can be solved by actions other than the addition of more beds to the system.
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