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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | A virtual evaluation of options for managing risk of hospital congestion with minimum intervention |
Author: | Hou, W. Qin, S. Thompson, C.H. |
Citation: | Scientific Reports, 2022; 12(1) |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 2045-2322 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Wanxin Hou, Shaowen Qin, Campbell Henry Thompson |
Abstract: | Hospital congestion is a common problem for the healthcare sector. However, existing approaches including hospital resource optimization and process improvement might lead to huge cost of human and physical structure changes. This study evaluated less disruptive interventions based on a hospital simulation model and offer objective reasoning to support hospital management decisions. This study tested a congestion prevention method that estimates hospital congestion risk level (R), and activates minimum intervention when R is above certain threshold, using a virtual hospital created by simulation modelling. The results indicated that applying a less disruptive intervention is often enough, and more cost effective, to reduce the risk level of hospital congestion. Moreover, the virtual implementation approach enabled testing of the method at a more detailed level, thereby revealed interesting findings difficult to achieve theoretically, such as discharging extra two medical inpatients, rather than surgical inpatients, a day earlier on days when R is above the threshold, would bring more benefits in terms of congestion reduction for the hospital. |
Keywords: | Health care; Risk factors |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2022 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http:// creat iveco mmons. org/ licen ses/ by/4. 0/. |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-022-18570-5 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP130100323 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18570-5 |
Appears in Collections: | Medicine publications |
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