Variability in admissions and lengths of stay inherently leads to variability in bed occupancy. The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of these sources of variability on the required amount of capacity and to determine admission quota for scheduled admissions to regulate the occupancy pattern. For the impact of variability on the required number of beds, we use a heavy-traffic limit the...

Background: An increasing number of term infants appropriate birth weight receive care in neonatal intensive units (NICUs).Objectives: This study assessed the prevalence, patterns, and risk factors for admission to a NICU identify areas quality improvement.Design: Retrospective study.Patients Methods: The cases were all (≥ 37 weeks gestational age) admitted AJIMS between 1st May 2021 30th April...

The Programmed Investigation Unit (P.I.U.) of the Manchester Royal Infirmary is an inpatient department providing facilities for all tests used in medicine. There are two special features of the unit: the timing of the admission of patients to suit their convenience; and placing of the tests in a compatible rapid sequence, which is incorporated in a timetable agreed with the investigative depar...

Background: The admission test (AT) has been carried out for many years, but there are still debates about the prognostic value of the test. Therefore, we aimed to examine the value of the AT in predicting the adverse outcome in neonates.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 425 pregnant women with normal vaginal delivery were studied between2009 and 2014at Vali-e-Asr Hospital. Based on the r...

OBJECTIVES To describe the patient demographic characteristics and organisational factors that influence length of stay (LOS) among emergency medical admissions. Also, to describe differences in investigation practice among consultant physicians and to examine the impact of these on LOS. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING General medicine department of a teaching hospital in Be...

Abstract Detecting sets of relevant patterns from a given dataset is an important challenge in data mining. The relevance pattern, also called utility the literature, subjective measure and can be actually assessed very different points view. Rule-based languages like Answer Set Programming (ASP) seem well suited for specifying user-provided criteria to assess pattern form constraints; moreover...

Dear Editor The fluorescent antinuclear antibody (FANA) test is widely used for the detection of systemic autoantibodies. Moreover, the fluorescent patterns seen with the FANA test have specific clinical significance [1, 2]. We recently observed an unfamiliar FANA pattern with several small cytoplasmic rod and ring immunofluorescence known as anti-rods and rings (RR) autoantibodies— the first i...