Modelling costs of bed occupancy and delayed discharge of post-stroke patients

2010 IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management, WHCM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Barton, Maria ^a   McClean, Sally ^a   Garg, Lalit ^b   Fullerton, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coxian phase type models; Healthcare; Length of stay; Simulation; Stroke; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BED-OCCUPANCY; COST-EFFICIENCY; COXIAN PHASE TYPE MODELS; FINANCIAL GAINS; LENGTH OF STAY; NURSING HOMES; PHASE TYPE MODELS; POST STROKE PATIENTS; SIMULATION MODEL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BIOINFORMATICS; COST REDUCTION; HOSPITALS; NURSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77952503000     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHCM.2010.5441244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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