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Optimizing Emergency Department Patient Flow Through Bed Allocation Strategies: A Discrete-Event Simulation Study.
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- Comment on: effects of emergency department length of stay on inpatient utilization and mortality.Health economics review · 2026Article
- Barriers, Facilitators, and Strategies for Sustaining the Hospital-Wide "One Bed" Model in China: A Single-Centre Descriptive Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Change fatigue profiles of clinical nurses and their associations with perceived organizational support and self-efficacy: A latent profile analysis.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- High- and Low-Complexity Features of Non-Critical Adult Patients in the Emergency Department.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Emergency department (ED) overcrowding and prolonged length of stay (LOS) remain critical issues in healthcare systems. This study compared 4 bed allocation strategies to optimize patient flow and resource utilization in a regional teaching hospital in Taiwan. A discrete-event simulation model was developed using 1 year hospital data from January 2022, including 29 718 ED visits. The following strategies were evaluated: (1) intra-departmental bed sharing, (2) optimized bed allocation, (3) cross-departmental bed lending with 5% capacity, and (4) combined optimization with bed borrowing. The model was validated by
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