Research on the arrangement of hospital beds and empirical analysis.
- Author:
Yuqin CAI
1
;
Jing WANG
Author Information
1. Center of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Health Economy Management, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China. cai_yuqin@live.cn
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
China;
Efficiency, Organizational;
Hospital Administration;
Hospital Bed Capacity;
Humans;
Models, Theoretical;
Ophthalmology;
Patient Admission
- From:
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2011;28(3):607-612
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This paper was aimed to find an efficient plan for the arrangement of the beds in hospitals so that the bed-operating efficiency could be raised and the requirements of patients could be perfectly met. After analyzing the data using the method of mathematical statistics, we defined the concept of "Waste Index". In addition to the concept, we realized the auto-simulation of the model using the dynamic programming model, and design the program by MATLAB. We got the characteristics of bed-occupation conditions by data analysis. We obtained the result of optimizing model by programming and the most efficient plan which was obviously better than the traditional FCFS (First Come First Serve) plan. It can be well concluded that the mathematical model should be of great maneuverability in the practical situation to ameliorate the management efficiency of hospital beds considerably.
