• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Modeling hospital resource management during the COVID-19 pandemic: An experimental validation
  • Beteiligte: Calabuig, J. M. [Verfasser:in]; Jiménez-Fernández, E. [Verfasser:in]; Sánchez Pérez, Enrique A. [Verfasser:in]; Manzanares, S. [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Basel: MDPI, 2021
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics9040038
  • ISSN: 2225-1146
  • Schlagwörter: COVID-19 ; Kaplan-Meier ; health econometrics ; decision ; optimization
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  • Beschreibung: One of the main challenges posed by the healthcare crisis generated by COVID-19 is to avoid hospital collapse. The occupation of hospital beds by patients diagnosed by COVID-19 implies the diversion or suspension of their use for other specialities. Therefore, it is useful to have information that allows efficient management of future hospital occupancy. This article presents a robust and simple model to show certain characteristics of the evolution of the dynamic process of bed occupancy by patients with COVID-19 in a hospital by means of an adaptation of Kaplan-Meier survival curves. To check this model, the evolution of the COVID-19 hospitalization process of two hospitals between 11 March and 15 June 2020 is analyzed. The information provided by the Kaplan-Meier curves allows forecasts of hospital occupancy in subsequent periods. The results shows an average deviation of 2.45 patients between predictions and actual occupancy in the period analyzed.
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