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New open-access paper now published in @BMC_series #BMCHealthServRes, looking at hospital bed occupancy in England during the 1st #COVID19 wave
These results emphasise the importance of local knowledge in predicting bed occupancy & capacity planning
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bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
These results emphasise the importance of local knowledge in predicting bed occupancy & capacity planning
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bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
I previously wrote a thread going over the main results & implications of this work - head over there & read the paper for more details, here I will only cover a couple of key summary points
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Most models predicting hosp. bed occupancy assume that patients receive care in only one bed type (eg general or critical), for an average length of stay
We suggest that this assumption + relying on national-level data is not appropriate for local bed occupancy predictions
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We suggest that this assumption + relying on national-level data is not appropriate for local bed occupancy predictions
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