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Analysis of bed occupancy data on the acute medical unit

Author(s) -

Danil Baykov,

Anne C. Skeldon,

Martin Whyte

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

future healthcare journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2514-6653

pISSN - 2514-6645

DOI - 10.7861/fhj.7.1.s84

Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , occupancy , medical emergency , hospital bed , emergency medicine , medicine , medical unit , resource (disambiguation) , operations management , computer science , psychology , engineering , nursing , computer network , architectural engineering , mathematics education

Hospitals may struggle to operate effectively and meet quality standards when unscheduled (emergency) admission rates are high in relation to operational capacity. Understanding patterns of ward admission and discharge from acute medical units (AMU) can help inform resource allocation. Discharges early in the day are advocated as a means to improve bed management, but delays may arise from post-AMU bed availability. It is unclear whether any change in AMU discharge patterns pre-dates hospital-wide pressure or whether it is a reaction to it.Anonymous data from 1 Jan 2016 to 31 December 2017 comprising the …

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