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A prospective study to assess the demand for a high dependency unit
Author(s) -
And C. G. LEESONPAYNE,
AITKENHEAD A. R.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1995.tb05988.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dependency (uml) , prospective cohort study , unit (ring theory) , protocol (science) , emergency medicine , medical unit , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , surgery , systems engineering , engineering , mathematics education , mathematics , alternative medicine , pathology
Summary We performed a prospective study in our teaching hospital to determine the demand for a High Dependency Unit where none had existed before. An admission criteria protocol was designed for medical and surgical patients and this was used in an intense surveillance of 22 acute wards over 2 weeks. It was predicted that a high dependency unit of eight beds would operate to capacity 50% of the time. An analysis of this type over a short period of time using similar admission criteria could be used to assist in the prediction of the necessary size of a High Dependency Unit facility in any hospital.