Health care is uncertain, dynamic, and fast growing. With digital technologies set to revolutionise the industry, hospital capacity optimisation and planning have never been more relevant. The purp...
Health care costs continue to rise as quality lags—where is the money spent? ; Reform of the U.S. health care system is often portrayed as an unattractive choice between quality and affordability. Health care costs continue to rise at a faster pace than either the Gross Domestic Product or inflation, straining public budgets and eroding workplace insurance coverage. Over 45 million have no insurance at all. Our national strengths in biomedical innovation have produced remarkable and often beneficial interventions, but they are too often used ...
Summary Capacity planning is a crucial component of modern health care governance. The aim of this paper is to analyze the requirements that need to be met to build effective hospital capacity plan...
Strain on hospitals ; Since the start of the respiratory virus season, overall hospital bed occupancy has been lower than last season in most of the United States. However, pediatric bed occupancy in some regions has been nearly as high or higher than last season. For instance, pediatric bed occupancy has been higher than last season in the Southeast, where respiratory disease activity has been elevated for longer. On December 14, 2023, CDC put out a Health Alert Network health advisory warning ...
A hospital will be further expanded with a new elective orthopaedic hub after planning permission was granted. Sulis Hospital, near Bath, will perform an additional 3,750 non-emergency...
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Several tools were developed to assist in this planning process. This review highlights models that project both caseload and hospital capacity requirements over time. Methods: We...
We present a resource-planning tool for hospitals under special consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic, called babsim.hospital. It provides many advantages for crisis teams, e.g., comparison with t...
Hospital occupancy is a key metric in hospital-capacity planning in Germany, even though this metric neglects important drivers of economic efficiency, for example treatment costs and case mix. We...
Request PDF | Hospital surge capacity: The importance of better hospital pre-planning to cope with patient surge during dengue epidemics – A systematic review | Background: Hospitals managers have...