Bed Occupancy
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Monday, November 23, 2009

High occupancy increases the risk of early death or readmission after transfer from intensive care.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a lack of intensive care unit beds was leading to premature patient discharge from the intensive care unit and subsequent early readmission or death. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: A single Canadian ... Read more...

Forecasting emergency department crowding: an external, multicenter evaluation.

27 Aug 2009 STUDY OBJECTIVE: We apply a previously described tool to forecast emergency department (ED) crowding at multiple institutions and assess its generalizability for predicting the near-future waiting count, occupancy level, and boarding count. METHODS: ... Read more...

Modelling the impact of an influenza A/H1N1 pandemic on critical care demand from early pathogenicity data: the case for sentinel reporting.

21 Jul 2009 Projected critical care demand for pandemic influenza H1N1 in England was estimated in this study. The effect of varying hospital admission rates under statistical uncertainty was examined. Early in a pandemic, uncertainty in epidemiological ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Bed Occupancy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• High occupancy increases the risk of early death or readmission after transfer from intensive care. 29 Sep 2009
• Did we learn anything from Humpty Dumpty? 29 Sep 2009
• [Using intensive medicine in progressive cases?] 14 Sep 2009
• Forecasting emergency department crowding: an external, multicenter evaluation. 27 Aug 2009
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and high bed occupancy. 30 Jul 2009
• Modelling the impact of an influenza A/H1N1 pandemic on critical care demand from early pathogenicity data: the case for sentinel reporting. 21 Jul 2009
• Advancing the science of emergency department crowding: measurement and solutions. 30 Jun 2009
• Emergency department overcrowding as a threat to patient dignity. 29 Jun 2009
• Crowding delays treatment and lengthens emergency department length of stay, even among high-acuity patients. 4 May 2009
• Intensive care unit occupancy and patient outcomes. 29 Apr 2009
• Intensive care unit occupancy: making room for more patients. 29 Apr 2009
• Costs of neonatal care for low-birthweight babies in English hospitals. 28 Apr 2009
• Caseload of NHS plastic surgeons in Scotland, 2005-2006: analysis of Scottish hospital activity data. 30 Mar 2009
• Rural hospital nursing: Better environments = shared vision and quality/safety engagement. 30 Mar 2009
• Factors associated with increasing nursing home closures. 15 Mar 2009
• The relationship between hospital volume and mortality in mechanical ventilation: an instrumental variable analysis. 15 Mar 2009
• Forecasting emergency department crowding: a prospective, real-time evaluation. 2 Mar 2009
• Annual expenditures for nursing home care: private and public payer price growth, 1977 to 2004. 27 Feb 2009
• The effect of hospital bed occupancy on throughput in the pediatric emergency department. 26 Feb 2009
• Short-term forecasting of emergency inpatient flow. 22 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Bed Occupancy'

Definition: A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.

Descriptor UI: D001509

Alternative terms: Bed Occupancy; Bed Occupancies; Occupancies, Bed; Occupancy, Bed;

Related Mesh Headings: Hospital Bed Capacity;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.050;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific hosp or department (IM) + geog if pertinent