What is it about?
A set of ratios are provided to allow a hospital to estimate a realistic number of critical care beds appropriate to their size. Also investigates if larger critical care units can gain economy of scale and hence lower costs.
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Why is it important?
In an era of cost containment all aspects of acute care need to be optimized to achieve minimum cost.
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Part of a wider series on capacity planning and hospital bed numbers, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Achieving Economy of Scale in Critical Care, Planning Information Necessary to Support the Choice of Bed Numbers, British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, January 2016, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/bjmmr/2016/28736.
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