ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2010
Understanding the current state of patient flow in a hospital.
Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Identifying seasonal and temporal trends in the pressures experienced by hospitals related to unscheduled care.BMC health services research · 2016Article
- 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
- 'Ebb and flow by the moon': can we do better in hospital?Future hospital journal · 2015Article
- Standardizing admission and discharge processes to improve patient flow: a cross sectional study.BMC health services research · 2012Article
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- Demonstration of a Fair Level of Agreement Between Escalation Scores Reported by Hospital Managers and Analysis of Stress-Related Hospital Metrics.Health services research and managerial epidemiologyArticle
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Abstract
The challenge of generating bed availability is constant in most NHS acute trusts. Building on previous work applying queue theory, this paper now takes operational data from one NHS trust, collected over a period of more than a year, to provide an evidence base and to establish the practical challenges associated with demand variation and managing length of stay. The problem is split into three separate parts. Daily bed shortages are mostly influenced by the timing of arrival and discharge of patients with a short length of stay. Patients who stay for longer than one to two days contribute most significantly to the observed weekly bed availability problem. The problems associated with bed shortages around Christmas time and into the New Year are not simply issues of increased demand. A reduction in discharge capacity is a major contributory factor that results in unnecessary increases in length of stay.
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