Cottage Hospitals?that the Cottage Hospital idea may have been rather overdone because of the steady falling off in the number of occupied beds, and that in England and Wales, excluding London, they had 1,839 beds vacant throughout the whole of last year. No one appreciates more than myself the value of Sir Napier Burnett's report, but I regret that he has lent the weight of his great authority...

BACKGROUND Decreasing hospital length of stay, and so freeing up hospital beds, represents an important cost saving which is often used in economic evaluations. The savings need to be accurately quantified in order to make optimal health care resource allocation decisions. Traditionally the accounting cost of a bed is used. We argue instead that the economic cost of a bed day is the better valu...

INTRODUCTION Prior reports suggest that restrictive ICU visitation policies can negatively impact patients and their loved ones. However, visitation practices in US ICUs, and the hospital factors associated with them, are not well described. METHODS A telephone survey was made of ICUs, stratified by US region and hospital type (community, federal, or university), between 2008 and 2009. Hospit...

INTRODUCTION In intensive care, occupancy is a commonly used measure. There is inconsistency however in its measurement and optimal occupancy targets need to be defined. The objectives of this literature review were to explore how occupancy is measured, reported, and interpreted and investigate optimal occupancy levels for ICUs. METHOD A literature search was performed using the Medline, Emba...

The Emergency Department (ED) is an integral part of hospitals. Admissions from the ED account for a significant proportion for a hospital‟s activity. Ensuring a timely and efficient flow of patients through the ED is crucial for optimising patient care. In recent years, ED overcrowding and its impact on patient flow has become a major issue facing the health sector. Simulation is rapidly becom...

Purpose: The recent pattern of the COVID19 have hit hard to entire world engulfing many lives within it. We intended portray association between hospital resources such as Hospital beds, Intensive care unit beds (ICU beds), percentage Gross Domestic Products (GDP) on health with total confirmed cases and deaths among different countries.
 Methods: data these available in 45 countries were ...

hospitals as the centers that consume the most resource of health system, based on their function have difference performance and efficiency. the purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency of ahvaz hospitals using data envelopment analysis (dea) method. this study is a descriptive-analytic study that assessed the efficiency of teaching and nonteaching hospitals in ahvaz using dea in 200...

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 ...