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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"bed capacity"”.
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Predicting department of medicine inpatients' discharges at US hospitals
… US hospitals have faced severe challenges with bed capacity management that leads to capacity congestion. Delivering patients to the right bed at the right time is very important to patient care quality. However, the current process employs a self-reporting system to receive bed availability …
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Perinatal Patient Management
<p>The medical center has lacked the bed capacity and nursing staff to accommodate the needs of maternity patients. Patients are redirected to other network and non-network medical centers due to lack of bed availability, inadequate nurse staffing, and poorly managed patient movement. This project …
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A study of the impact of CLIA '88 on personnel needs in clinical laboratories of acute care facilities in Virginia
… Demographic information was obtained regarding bed capacity, educational levels of current personnel serving in different capacities, test volume, and percent of tests performed by different complexity levels. Comparisons were made among small, medium, and large facilities. The majority of …
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"All Set toGo Home":Improving Discharge Planning for Patient's SAfe and Timely Discharge
… unit at the county hospital. The facility has 54-bed capacity with an average daily census of 35 to 40 specializing in cancer, end-stage diseases, cardiac issues, HIV/AIDS, sepsis, palliative and comfort care, diabetes, respiratory diseases, psychiatric and placement patients. The unit has no …
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Improving Patients' Pain Management Through Proper Documentation
… California. The microsystem selected is the 32-bed capacity Surgical Unit that mainly admits pre- and post-surgical patients, but also accommodates non-surgical, telemetry, and trauma cases.</p> <p>To improve pain assessment documentation, collaboration was sought with the multidisciplinary team …
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Managing Postoperative Pain for Timely Discharge of Total Hip Replacement Patients
… Medical Surgical Unit has 30-patient bed capacity. My project’s goal is to utilize pain management rounds to help decrease hospital length of stay. Also, the study is specific to post operative THR patient and hourly rounds that will compliment patient assessment. The global aim of …
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Are Men Healthcare Executives more Successful than Women Healthcare Executives?
… throughout the State of Georgia with a licensed bed capacity of 100 beds and greater in order to determine whether male executives are more successful than their female counterparts. Despite interest in this issue, there is no good answer to the question on how long pay disparity will continue …
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The Effects of a Education Program on Caregivers' Knowledge and Attitudes toward the Elderly in Geriatric Hospital
… and S city's geriatric hospital which have a bed capacity of 100 patients. The 26 caregivers' were assigned in the intervention group and the other 24 caregivers' to the control group respectively. A pre-survey of general character, knowledge and attitude on the elderly was given to the …
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An analysis of health facility preparedness for major incidents in Kampala
… and facility major incident operation centres, bed capacity, equipment and supplies and staffing. The HVA assessed the human impact, impact on property and on business of the hazards as well as measures for mitigation (preparedness, internal response and external response) in place at the …
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Predicting surgical inpatients' discharges at Massachusetts General Hospital
… the last few years, MGH has grappled with severe bed capacity management problems. As a result, delays occur in delivering the patient to the right bed at the right time, hindering patient care. One of the root causes for those delays is the mismatch between the timing of admissions and …
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Data-driven System Design in Service Operations
… catastrophe, which far exceeds the current burn bed capacity. We develop a new system for prioritizing patients for transfer to burn beds as they become available and demonstrate its superiority over several other triage methods. Based on data from previous burn catastrophes, we study the …
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Modeling neuroscience patient flow and inpatient bed management
… high demand for its more than 900 inpatient beds. On an average weekday, the hospital admits about 220 patients, with the emergency department (ED) and the operating rooms (OR) being the main sources of admissions. Given MGH's high occupancy rates, a comparable number of discharges have to …
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Exploring the case of adopting Lean to potentially enhance the flow of patients with diabetes in Primary Healthcare Centres in Kuwait. Exploring the case of adopting Lean to potentially enhance the flow of patients with diabetes in Primary Healthcare Centres in Kuwait
… in Kuwait that will result in a doubling of the bed capacity. However, the average occupancy rate between 2006 to 2015 was 63.6%, which is considered low compared to the average occupancy rate in European Union countries. Study 3 sought the views of Kuwaiti healthcare leaders about Lean and …
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Models for Estimating Psychiatric Bed Needs
… Council wished to estimate the psychiatric bed needs by type (such as state hospitals, board and care homes, etc.) in San Bernardino County from the distributions of patient arrivals and of lengths of stay. A statistical description of the system during 1973 was considered the first step …
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Removal of cationic and anionic dyes from aqueous solution using a clay-based nanocomposite.
… process, certain quantities of dyes are absorbed by the products, and some of them end up in wastewater. Depending on their application, some synthetic dyes are designed to be chemically or biologically resistant and their presence in the environment can cause severe environmental problems …