background: the pabon lasso model was  applied to assess the performance of six state-run hospitals in the province of kohgilooyeh & boyer-ahmad, to produce information that used by policy makers in their attempt to make the health care sys­tem more productive. methods: this cross-sectional study involved all the six public hospitals in the province, with 607 registered beds. data collec­tion a...

Background: Hospital accreditation is a systematic external evaluation of a hospital's structures, processes, and outcomes by an independent professional accreditation body using published optimum, evidence‐based, and achievable standards. Accreditation is a strategy for ensuring the quality, safety, and productivity of hospital services. Implementing accreditation standards imposes a high cost...

Current methods used to calculate the required size of hospitals are underestimating the true capacity needed for operational efficiency. Trends in occupied bed-days (rather than admissions and length of stay) give better estimates of future bed requirements. Hospital occupancy rates depend on volatility in demand, not efficiency. Larger bed pools and hospitals can operate at higher average occ...

We present a new machine learning based bed-occupancy detection system that uses the accelerometer signal captured by bed-attached consumer smartphone. Automatic is necessary for automatic long-term cough monitoring, since time which monitored patient occupies bed required to accurately calculate rate. Accelerometer measurements are more cost effective and less intrusive than alternatives such ...

BACKGROUND Internationally, there is no consensus on how to best deal with admission requests in cases of full ICU bed occupancy. Knowledge about the degree of dissension and insight into the reasons for this dissension is lacking. Information about the opinion of ICU physicians can be used to improve decision-making regarding allocation of ICU resources. The aim of this study was to: Assess wh...

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 ...