Private beds.

Flow through Packed Beds and Fluidized Beds

Chemical engineering operations commonly involve the use of packed and fluidized beds. These are devices in which a large surface area for contact between a liquid and a gas (absorption, distillation) or a solid and a gas or liquid (adsorption, catalysis) is obtained for achieving rapid mass and heat transfer, and particularly in the case of fluidized beds, catalytic chemical reactions. You wil...

Characteristics and Practices of Adults Who Use Tanning Beds in Private Residences.

Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether the projected 24% reduction in acute bed numbers in Lothian hospitals, which formed part of the private finance initiative (PFI) plans for the replacement Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, is being compensated for by improvements in efficiency and greater use of community facilities, and to ascertain whether there is an independent PFI effect by comparing clinical act...

Who needs beds?

We wish to respond to two recent articles highlighting a decline in the frequency of bedside teaching and advocating a return to this traditional clinical education set piece [1, 2] We agree with the assertion that bedside teaching has, in the past, proved to be an important form of clinical education through which learners gain professional, communication, physical examination and reasoning sk...

How many hospital beds?

For many years, average bed occupancy level has been the primary measure that has guided hospital bed capacity decisions at both policy and managerial levels. Even now, the common wisdom that there is an excess of beds nationally has been based on a federal target of 85% occupancy that was developed about 25 years ago. This paper examines data from New York state and uses queueing analysis to e...