Bed occupancy, turnover intervals and MRSA rates in English hospitals
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Bed occupancy, turnover intervals and MRSA rates in English hospitals.
This article (a follow on from an article concentrating on Northern Ireland) examines the relationship between percentage bed occupancy (PO), turnover interval (TI) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rates in the acute beds of specialist English hospital trusts and describes the TI and levels of bed occupancy. The data were collected from publicly available data: MRSA rates ...
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Background and Aim: Assessment of hospital performance increases responsiveness and efficiency of limited resources. One of the most useful models of hospital performance assessment is Pabon-Lasso, a graphical model that determines the relative performance of hospitals using three indicators: Bed Occupancy Rate Bed Turnover and Average Length of Stay. The present study aims to compare the perfo...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Nursing
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0966-0461,2052-2819
DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2006.15.12.21398