Modeling the effect of short stay units on patient admissions

Publication date: Available online 29 April 2015 Source:Operations Research for Health Care Author(s): Maartje E. Zonderland , Richard J. Boucherie , Michael W. Carter , David A. Stanford 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 a SSU on elective and urgent patient admissions.
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research