Modeling the effect of short stay units on patient admissions

Maartje E. Zonderland; Richard J. Boucherie; Michael W. Carter; David A. Stanford

doi:10.1016/j.orhc.2015.04.001

Modeling the effect of short stay units on patient admissions

Maartje E. Zonderland, Richard J. Boucherie, Michael W. Carter, David A. Stanford

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Abstract

Two purposes of Short Stay Units (SSU) are the reduction of Emergency Department crowding and increased urgent patient admissions. At an SSU urgent patients are temporarily held until they either can go home or transferred to an inpatient ward. In this paper we present an overflow model to evaluate the effect of employing an SSU on elective and urgent patient admissions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-27
Number of pages	7
Journal	Operations research for health care
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orhc.2015.04.001
Publication status	Published - Jun 2015

Keywords

Queuing theory
Short stay unit
Patient admissions
Capacity Planning
Length of stay
Emergency Department

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