caa a22 4500 397499914 CHVBK 20180308164530.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199509 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.345 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.345 HUANG XIAO-MING Information Department, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Derriford, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK A planning model for requirement of emergency beds [Elektronische Daten] [XIAO-MING HUANG] In-patient bed requirement (or number of beds required to cope with the workload) is of prime importance for hospital management because of its direct implication for manpower requirement and therefore the costs. In-patient beds could be divided into emergency beds and elective beds, where the requirement for emergency beds will be affected by both patient length of stay distributions and the random patterns in which patients arrive. In this paper, the author extends the early results by Pike et al. (1963, Br. J. Prev. Soc. Med. 17, 172) so that day-of-week effect is introduced into the queuing model to evaluate the requirement of emergency beds. It is demonstrated that emergency bed occupancy on any specific day of the week follows a Poisson distribution. © 1995 Oxford University Press Part 3: Simulation and Modelling nationallicence emergency beds nationallicence queuing model nationallicence Poisson distribution nationallicence day-of-week effect nationallicence Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA Oxford University Press 12/3-4(1995-09), 345-353 1477-8599 12:3-4<345 1995 12 imammb https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.345 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.345 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- HUANG XIAO-MING Information Department, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Derriford, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA Oxford University Press 12/3-4(1995-09), 345-353 1477-8599 12:3-4<345 1995 12 imammb Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford