A technical note concerning emergency bed demand

A technical note concerning emergency bed demand

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Article ID: iaor20118611
Volume: 14
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 250
End Page Number: 252
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Journal: Health Care Management Science
Authors: ,
Keywords: Bed occupancy
Abstract:

A common method for modelling emergency referrals to a hospital in‐patient unit is to assume that they follow a Poisson distribution. If lengths of stay are independent and identically distributed, then the distribution of bed demand can be derived by analysis of a queueing system with an infinite number of servers. Undemanding analysis can be used to express the mean and variance of bed demand in terms of simple formulae involving mean referral rates and the distribution of lengths of stay.

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