What is it about?
Hospital bed modelling, like any form of modelling, demands that you understand the system which contributes to the need for hospital beds. A method to compare International bed numbers is elaborated and then applied to understand regional and local bed requirements.
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Why is it important?
Too few hospital beds is the quickest route to totally destroying the efficiency, safety and staff satisfaction of any hospital.
Perspectives
The politicians in England have somehow managed to implement health and social care policies in a way that induced a system of gross bed and staff insufficiency. Learn from their mistakes.
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Addressing the Knowledge Deficit in Hospital Bed Planning and Defining an Optimum Region for the Number of Different Types of Hospital Beds in an Effective Health Care System, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, December 2023, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20247171.
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