93 Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes for Emergency Department Patients After Implementation of a Hospital Policy on Alternative Care Area Inpatient Beds, Which Include Hallway Beds

Goal Programming for Optimal Allocation of Hospital Beds (Case Study: Emergency Department of Shahid Madani Hospital in Tabriz)

In today’s competitive markets, customer satisfaction is the main goal for all managers, and at a hospital what the most adapted bed allocation policy is, a research subject is for many researchers to gain more customer satisfaction. Researchers have presented a variety of methods on allocating beds to the patients, based on their type of customers and problems. In this paper, goal programming ...

The Safety of Hospital Beds

When There Are No Inpatient Beds: Providing Pediatric Critical Care for Trauma Patients in the Emergency Department

The continued growth in emergency department (ED) use combined with limited inpatient bed availability often leads to boarding of patients needing inpatient or intensive care unit admission in the ED. Emergency department personnel are experienced in the rapid assessment of trauma patients but may be less prepared or comfortable with providing ongoing management of trauma patients, especially c...

Adding more beds to the emergency department or reducing admitted patient boarding times: which has a more significant influence on emergency department congestion?

STUDY OBJECTIVE We evaluate a computer simulation model designed to assess the effect on emergency department (ED) length of stay of varying the number of ED beds or altering the interval of admitted patient departure from the ED. METHODS We created a computer simulation model (Med Model) based on institutional data and augmented by expert estimates and assumptions. We evaluated simulations o...

Patient trajectories in a Norwegian unit of municipal emergency beds

OBJECTIVE The Coordination reform was implemented in Norway from 2012, aiming at seamless patient trajectories. All municipalities are required to establish emergency care beds (MEBs) to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. We aimed to examine occupancy rate, patient characteristics, diagnoses and discharge level of municipal care in a small MEB unit. DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational s...