Patient need at the heart of workforce planning: The use of supply and demand analysis in a large teaching hospital's acute medical unit

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 312-316

  Le Jeune, I R ^a   Simmonds, M J R ^a   Poole, L ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute medicine; Supply demand analysis; Workforce planning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MODEL; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 84865481278     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-4-312     Document Type: Article

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