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Using Real-Time Demand Capacity Management to Improve Hospitalwide Patient Flow
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UPMC at Shadyside began testing and implementing real-time demand capacity management (RTDC) at an initial pilot site in 2007, and improvements were achieved and have been sustained through early 2011.About:
This article is published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 37 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hospital bed.read more
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Real-time prediction of inpatient length of stay for discharge prioritization
TL;DR: There is potential to use readily available health information to predict daily patient discharges with accuracies comparable to clinician predictions and this approach may be used to automate and support daily RTDC predictions aimed at improving patient flow.
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Relationship between ICU bed availability, ICU readmission, and cardiac arrest in the general wards.
James A. Town,Matthew M. Churpek,Trevor C. Yuen,Michael T. Huber,John P. Kress,Dana P. Edelson +5 more
TL;DR: Reduced ICU bed availability is associated with increased rates of ICU readmission and ward cardiac arrest, which suggests that systemic factors are associated with patient outcomes, and flexible critical care resources may be needed when demand is high.
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Managing ICU throughput and understanding ICU census.
TL;DR: Little's Law (L = &lgr; W), a cornerstone of queuing theory, provides an eminently practical basis for managing ICU census and throughput and operations management tools such as Little's Law can provide practical guidance about the relationship between census, throughput, and patient demand.
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A Successful Model for a Comprehensive Patient Flow Management Center at an Academic Health System
TL;DR: An innovative approach to managing patient flow at a multicampus academic health system is reported, integrating multiple services into a single, centralized Patient Flow Management Center that manages supply and demand for inpatient services across the system.
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Huddles and their effectiveness at the frontlines of clinical care: a scoping review.
Camilla B. Pimentel,A. Lynn Snow,A. Lynn Snow,Sarah L Carnes,Nishant R. Shah,Julia Loup,Julia Loup,Tatiana M Vallejo-Luces,Caroline Madrigal,Christine W. Hartmann +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive overview of huddles used in diverse health care settings, examines the empirical support for huddle effectiveness, and identifies knowledge gaps and opportunities for future research.
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Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research
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A conceptual model of emergency department crowding
Brent R. Asplin,David J. Magid,Karin V. Rhodes,Leif I. Solberg,Nicole Lurie,Carlos A. Camargo +5 more
TL;DR: The goal of the conceptual model is to provide a practical framework on which an organized research, policy, and operations management agenda can be based to alleviate ED crowding.
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Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding.
TL;DR: To quantify any relationship between emergency department overcrowding and 10‐day patient mortality, a large-scale study of accident and emergency departments in the Netherlands found no relationship.
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Hospital Workload and Adverse Events
Joel S. Weissman,Jeffrey M. Rothschild,Eran Bendavid,Peter Sprivulis,E. Francis Cook,R. Scott Evans,Yevgenia Kaganova,Melissa Bender,Jo Ann David-Kasdan,Peter J. Haug,Jim Lloyd,Leslie G. Selbovitz,Harvey J. Murff,David W. Bates +13 more
TL;DR: Hospitals that operate at or over capacity may experience heightened rates of patient safety events and might consider re-engineering the structures of care to respond better during periods of high stress.
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Effect of adaptive cruise control systems on traffic flow.
TL;DR: In this article, the flow of traffic composed of vehicles that are equipped with adaptive cruise control (ACC) is studied using simulations, where the ACC vehicles are modeled by a linear dynamical equation that has string stability.