INTRODUCTION Fair distribution of hospital beds across various regions is a controversial subject. Resource allocation in health systems rarely has focused on those who need it most and, in addition, is often influenced by political interests. The study assesses the distribution of hospital beds in different regions in Tehran, Iran, during 2010-2012. METHODS This cross-sectional study was con...

INTRODUCTION In order to improve health, hospital sources such as beds and staffing should be properly allocated and used. The aim of this study is reallocation of Shafa hospital beds in Kerman using a goal-programming model. METHODS This study was an applied cross-sectional study, which used the goal programming model and software WinQSB to optimize bed allocation. By review of the literatur...

OBJECTIVE Critical care represents a large percentage of healthcare spending in developed countries. Yet, little is known regarding international variation in critical care services. We sought to understand differences in critical care delivery by comparing data on the distribution of services in eight countries. DESIGN Retrospective review of existing national administrative data. We identif...

Susceptible-infectious-removed (SIR) epidemic models are proposed to consider the impact of available resources of the public health care system in terms of the number of hospital beds. Both the incidence rate and the recovery rate are considered as nonlinear functions of the number of infectious individuals, and the recovery rate incorporates the influence of the number of hospital beds. It is...

A number of beds are reserved each day in most hospitals to accommodate emergency cases arriving during the day. Since the number of emergency cases fluctuates considerably from day to day, it is not immediately obvious how many beds should be set aside for this purpose. If all the beds so reserved are filled during the day, any further emergency cases must either be accommodated in extra beds ...

BACKGROUND To determine the hospital required beds using stochastic simulation approach in cardiac surgery departments. METHODS This study was performed from Mar 2011 to Jul 2012 in three phases: First, collection data from 649 patients in cardiac surgery departments of two large teaching hospitals (in Tehran, Iran). Second, statistical analysis and formulate a multivariate linier regression ...

in 1964. Using the yardstick of 1.5 geriatric hospital beds per 1,000 population and 20 welfare beds per 1,000 elderly, the province is only short of 78 (3i per cent) hospital and 807 (26 per cent) welfare beds. This overall deficiency in hospital beds will be made up during the next few months and over half the welfare beds needed are already under construction. Needless to say Dr. Adams is no...

BACKGROUND One of the important aspects of equity in health is equality in the distribution of resources in this sector. The present study aimed to assess the distribution of hospital beds in Shiraz in 2014. METHODS In this retrospective cross-sectional study, the population density index and fair distribution of beds were analyzed by Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient, respectively. Descripti...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: reforms in inpatient care are critical for the enhancement of the efficiency of health systems. it still remains the main costly sector of the health system, accounting for more than 60% of all expenditures. inappropriate and ineffective use of the hospital infrastructure is also a big issue. we aimed to analyze statistical data on healt...