The physical wear of health professionals arises mainly from the movement people with reduced mobility, transport stretchers, hospital beds and carts. There is a lack equipment that helps these to move patients in or stretchers. This work aims design an removes professionals' function moving being able around bed. Added this challenge was diversification models beds, making it necessary for ada...

There is considerable public, political and professional debate about the need for additional hospital beds in Australia. However, there is no clarity in regard to the definition, meaning and significance of hospital bed counts. Relative to population, there has been a total decline in bed availability in Australia over the past 15 years of 14.6% (22.9% for public hospital beds). This decline i...

BACKGROUND Since October 2002 in the UK Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) have had statutory responsibility for having and maintaining a Major Incident plan and since 2005 they have been obliged to co-operate with other responders to an incident. We aimed to establish the number of beds in our Trust which could be freed up over set periods of time in the event of a major incident and the nature and qu...

^PHE Hospital Plan for England and Wales,* published by the Minister of Health in January, has made clearer the future of psychiatric services and the mental hospitals. The plan consists largely of area-by-area lists?of hospitals and beds at the end of 1960, of developments under way or planned, and of hospitals and beds expected to be provided by 1975. However, psychiatric services, including ...

Some visible effects of incompleteness of our care system are the auxiliary beds in psychiatric units of general hospitals, mainly in Attica and the very high rate of involuntary hospitalizations, 35–40% of admissions in psychiatric units of general hospitals in Athens, more than 50% in psychiatric hospitals and lower rates in other regional units. The growth of private clinics is mostly visibl...

This paper describes three bed prediction models in aiding hospital planners to anticipate bed demand so as to manage resources efficiently. The Poisson bed occupancy model provides an estimation of bed occupancy and optimal bed requirements in each class based on length of stay and admissions data. The simulation model was developed to predict bed occupancy levels for every class for the follo...

A review of admissions to cancer services at University Hospital Galway (UHG) was undertaken to assess the appropriateness of hospital usage. All cancer specialty patients admitted from 26-28 May 2009 were reviewed (n = 82). Chi square tests, Exact tests, and One-way ANOVA were utilised to analyse key issues emerging from the data. Fifty (61%) were classified as emergencies. Twenty three (67%) ...