Adjusting Daily Inpatient Bed Allocation to Smooth Emergency Department Occupancy Variation

Adjusting Daily Inpatient Bed Allocation to Smooth Emergency Department Occupancy Variation

Study Objective: Overcrowding in emergency departments (ED) is an increasingly common problem in Taiwanese hospitals, and strategies to improve efficiency are in demand. We propose a bed resource allocation strategy to overcome the overcrowding problem. Method: We investigated ED occupancy using dis...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey Che-Hung Tsai, Shao-Jen Weng, Shih-Chia Liu, Yao-Te Tsai, Donald F. Gotcher, Chih-Hao Chen, Chun-An Chou, Seung-Hwan Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Healthcare
Subjects:
overcrowding
inpatient bed allocation
emergency department operations
discrete-event simulation
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/2/78

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