Why Not Save Hospital Beds?

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...

Why safety doesn't save closure

Knowledge closure is, roughly, the following claim: For every agent S and propositions P and Q, if S knows P, knows that P implies Q, and believes Q because it is so implied, then S knows Q. Almost every epistemologist believes that closure is true. Indeed, they often believe that it so obviously true that any theory implying its denial is thereby refuted. Some prominent epistemologists have ne...

Reducing Hospital Beds

The Safety of Hospital Beds

HOSPITALIZATION Section I. HOSPITAL BEDS

a. The theater evacuation policy affects the number of beds required to support the TO. A patient requiring 59 days of hospitalization also requires a bed and a medical staff for 59 days. He requires this whether the entire period is spent in the theater, or divided between 29 days in the theater and 30 days in CONUS. The most intensive and demanding medical requirements are experienced during ...