Khanna Sankalp, Boyle Justin, Good Norm, Lind James
The CSIRO Australian E-Health Research Centre.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;168:82-8.
The ability of hospital staff to get a patient to the right bed at the right time is dependent on bed occupancy, and is a key issue in all acute hospitals. This paper seeks to identify the impact of admission and discharge timing on hospital occupancy with reference to the peak in daily admissions and discharges. Patient admissions data from 23 Queensland public hospitals was classified into categories based on the relative timing of daily admission and discharge curves. We found statistically significant differences in mean and peak occupancy and patient length of stay between categories (one-way univariate ANOVA p<0.0001). The results support early patient discharge initiatives to reduce hospital occupancy rates.
医院工作人员在正确的时间将患者安置到正确床位的能力取决于床位占用情况，这是所有急症医院的关键问题。本文旨在参照每日入院和出院高峰，确定入院和出院时间对医院床位占用情况的影响。来自昆士兰州23家公立医院的患者入院数据根据每日入院和出院曲线的相对时间进行了分类。我们发现不同类别之间在平均和高峰占用率以及患者住院时间上存在统计学显著差异（单因素方差分析p<0.0001）。研究结果支持早期患者出院举措以降低医院床位占用率。
