Hospital discharge rates measure the number of patients who leave a hospital after staying at least one night. Improving timely can help flow through hospital, freeing up beds and health worker time. Both premature delayed discharges not only worsen outcomes but also increase costs: lead to costly readmissions; use limited resources.

A new network-based SIR epidemic model, which incorporates the individual medical resource factor and public is proposed. It verified that larger factor, smaller control reproduction number, can weaken spread of diseases. We found number below unity not enough to ensure global asymptotic stability disease-free equilibrium. When hospital beds or small enough, system will undergoes backward bifur...

The number of hospital beds provides an indication the resources available for delivering services to inpatients. COVID‑19 pandemic has highlighted need have a sufficient and flexibility in their use, address any unexpected surge demand intensive care, together with doctors nurses right skills provide required (OECD/European Union, 2020[14]). Still, surplus may lead overuse therefore costs – no...

OBJECTIVES Given increasing demand for emergency care, there is growing concern over the availability of emergency department (ED) and inpatient resources. Existing studies of ED bed supply are dated and often overlook hospital capacity beyond ED settings. We described recent statewide trends in the capacity of ED and inpatient hospital services from 2005 to 2014. DESIGN Retrospective analysi...

OBJECTIVES This study was performed to investigate the relationship between the incidence of national notifiable infectious diseases (NNIDs) and meteorological factors, air pollution levels, and hospital resources in Korea. METHODS We collected and stored 660,000 pieces of publicly available data associated with infectious diseases from public data portals and the Diseases Web Statistics Syst...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of implementing long-stay beds for patients of low complexity and high dependency in small hospitals on the performance of an emergency referral tertiary hospital. METHODS For this longitudinal study, we identified hospitals in three municipalities of a regional department of health covered by tertiary care that supplied 10 long-stay beds each. Patients were tra...

Up to the present, the required future number of hospital beds has been calculated under the assumption that changes in demography and length of stay are the major factors determining demand. It is recognised that a significant proportion of acute medical care could be moved into more community focussed models of care; however, there is no current method for estimating how many beds could be sa...