Modeling the effect of short stay units on patient admissions
- Zonderland, Maartje E.
- Boucherie, Richard J.
- Carter, Michael W.
- Stanford, David A.
Publication date
June 2015
DOI Publisher
The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Abstract
AbstractTwo 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 an SSU on elective and urgent patient admissions
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