Are hospital beds endowment a driver of patients' migration?

How many hospital beds?

For many years, average bed occupancy level has been the primary measure that has guided hospital bed capacity decisions at both policy and managerial levels. Even now, the common wisdom that there is an excess of beds nationally has been based on a federal target of 85% occupancy that was developed about 25 years ago. This paper examines data from New York state and uses queueing analysis to e...

Reducing Hospital Beds

The Safety of Hospital Beds

‘Are decisions about discharge of elderly hospital patients mainly about freeing blocked beds?’ A qualitative observational study

OBJECTIVE To explore the interactions concerning the frail and elderly patients having to do with discharge from acute hospital wards and their participation in medical decision-making. The views of the patients and the medical staff were both investigated. DESIGN A qualitative observational and interview study using the grounded theory. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The setting was three hospit...

HOSPITALIZATION Section I. HOSPITAL BEDS

a. The theater evacuation policy affects the number of beds required to support the TO. A patient requiring 59 days of hospitalization also requires a bed and a medical staff for 59 days. He requires this whether the entire period is spent in the theater, or divided between 29 days in the theater and 30 days in CONUS. The most intensive and demanding medical requirements are experienced during ...