caa a22 4500 39749999X CHVBK 20180308164530.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199509 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.249 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.249 A decision support system for bed-occupancy management and planning hospitals [Elektronische Daten] [Sally McClean, Peter H. Millard] The planning of services within a hospital is a complex task which relies on the availability of accurate data. Such data on patterns of bed occupancy enable us to develop tools which assess performance measures based on activity within a hospital and its beds, and hence they improve the efficiency of bed management and they facilitate the more effective use of resources. We report the development of a bed-occupancy-modelling package that uses a mathematical model to separate the pattern of bed occupancy in hospitals into acute, rehabilitative, and long-stay components. The bed-occupancy management and planning system analyses data downloaded from the patient administrative system. A query-by-example function is then used to separate the data into meaningful subgroups, such as age groups, or the various specialties. The underlying model is a mixed exponential where the number of terms in the mixture corresponds to the number of stages in the hospital spell, typically, acute, rehabilitative, and long stay. The software has been used to analyse data from a number of different specialties and services. A ‘what-if' capacility allows the planner to assess the effect of changes prior to their introduction. © 1995 Oxford University Press Part 2: Provider Issues nationallicence bed occupancy nationallicence hospital-bed usage nationallicence decision support system nationallicence McClean Sally Division of Mathematics, School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster Belfast, UK aut Millard Peter H. Division of Geriatric Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School London, UK aut Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA Oxford University Press 12/3-4(1995-09), 249-257 1477-8599 12:3-4<249 1995 12 imammb https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.249 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/imammb/12.3-4.249 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McClean Sally Division of Mathematics, School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Ulster Belfast, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Millard Peter H. Division of Geriatric Medicine, St George's Hospital Medical School London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA Oxford University Press 12/3-4(1995-09), 249-257 1477-8599 12:3-4<249 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