When starting to read a paper on hospitals, a medical paper would directly come to mind, but this is not a medical paper. This paper explains and researches the average length of stay of three specialisms. It provides the reader a framework for thinking more detailed at the importance and difficulty on statistics on the length of stay. We have seen that there is a difference between different diagnoses, but these diagnoses can change during the stay. What do we need to assess an expected length of stay, other than a first diagnosis? In this research we have seen that we need an admission indication and more data for better results. We saw that there are patients with exaggerated length of stay, which we could not use to forecast length of stay. Not only will we discuss the length of stay, we will see that an Acute Admission Ward has added value to the current situation when we look at the process of admitting emergency patiennts.

Dekker, R.
hdl.handle.net/2105/31034
Econometrie
Erasmus School of Economics

Hofman, S. (2015, September 15). Handeling the flow of emergency patients at a hospital. Econometrie. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2105/31034