Impact of admission and discharge peak times on hospital overcrowding

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 168, Issue , 2011, Pages 82-88

  Khanna, Sankalp ^a   Boyle, Justin ^a   Good, Norm ^a   Lind, James ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b GOLD COAST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bed Occupancy; Crowding; Hospital Bed Capacity

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

BED-OCCUPANCY; CROWDING; DISCHARGE CURVES; OCCUPANCY RATE; PATIENT ADMISSIONS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RELATIVE TIMING; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 83155183366     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-791-8-82     Document Type: Conference Paper

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