In several countries of sub-Saharan Africa more than 10% of the adult population are infected with HIV, while in large towns such as Kampala, Lusaka, Blantyre, Kigali and Harare this proportion exceeds 25%. One of the most obvious consequences is the increased occupancy of hospital beds by patients with HIV infection, perhaps to the exclusion of patients with other ailments. This paper gives an...

Flexibility in the usage of clinical beds is considered to be a key element to efficiently organize critical capacity. However, full flexibility can have some major drawbacks as large systems are more difficult to manage, lack effective care delivery due to absence of focus and require multi-skilled medical teams. In this paper, we identify practical guidelines on how beds should be allocated t...

BACKGROUND Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is frequently described in terms of input- throughput and output. In order to reduce ED input, a concept called primary triage has been introduced in several Swedish EDs. In short, primary triage means that a nurse separately evaluates patients who present in the Emergency Department (ED) and either refers them to primary care or discharges them...

FROM time to time assessments have been made of the number of hospital beds required per thousand of the population served. In 1950 the Ministry of Health published a Memorandum on the Development of Consultant Services which, on the overall pattern suggests a figure of from six to seven acute beds per thousand, excluding maternity beds. It is, however, essential to define the particular area, ...

An efficient bed allocation management GIS based system tool, eBeds, is being developed within the hospital environment to meet the health industry’s patient management protocols and to address community concerns. Inefficiencies and continuing difficulties in management of available and appropriate beds within hospitals have not been overcome and continue to be a source of practical, financial ...

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background and objectives: efficient hospital management requires appropriate cost and price strategies. informed decision on costs and prices of healthcare services needs estimation of costs of unit services using microeconomic techniques. there is lack of knowledge and skills for such costing methods in the healthcare sector of developing countries such as iran. this study aims at detail desc...

OBJECTIVE To identify the relative importance of factors influencing hospital use at the end of life. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of person and health system effects on hospital use in the past 12 months modelling differences in admissions, bed days and whether a person died in hospital. SETTING Residents in England for the period 2009/2010 to 2011/2012 using Hospital Episodes Statist...