کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
979099 933321 2007 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
A power law distribution in patients' lengths of stay in hospital
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات فیزیک ریاضی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
A power law distribution in patients' lengths of stay in hospital
چکیده انگلیسی
The distribution of patients' lengths of stay in English hospitals is measured by using routinely collected data from 11 years. It is found to be well approximated by a power law distribution spanning over more than three decades. To explain this observation, a theoretical resource allocation model is presented. It is based on iterative long-term scheduling of hospital beds, and its main assumption is that future beds are allocated preferentially. This represents a situation where different parts of the health care system compete for resources, with bargaining powers proportional to current resource levels.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications - Volume 379, Issue 1, 1 June 2007, Pages 235-240
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