Decision support for hospital bed management using adaptable individual length of stay estimations and shared resources

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schmidt, Robert ^a   Geisler, Sandra ^a   Spreckelsen, Cord ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CASE MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL SHARED SERVICES; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LENGTH OF STAY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871876360     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-3     Document Type: Article

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