What is it about?
Hospital bed occupancy in England shows an extended series of high/low shifts in bed occupancy which occur very roughly every two years. This same behaviour is replicated in deaths, certain medical admissions, A&E attendances, GP referrals and the gender ratio at birth.
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Why is it important?
Something appears to reoccur which subtly shifts human health. Other studies at small area level indicate that this has all the characteristics of a series of disease outbreaks arising from an unrecognized pathogen.
Perspectives
This curious behaviour is not supposed to exist, yet it clearly does. Persons with Alzheimer's, dementia and certain other neurological disorders appear most sensitive to the increased deaths which accompany these events.
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Curious patterns in hospital bed occupancy data, British Journal of Healthcare Management, March 2020, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2020.0014.
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