Predicting elderly patient length of stay in hospital and community care using a series of conditional Coxian phase-type distributions, further conditioned on a survival tree.
Increasing demand on hospital resources by an ageing population is impacting significantly on the number of beds available and, in turn, the length of time that elderly patients must wait for a bed before being admitted to hospital. This research presents a new methodology that models patient pathwa...
| Published in: | Health Care Management Science Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 269 - 281 |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Jun2018
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