Acta Marisiensis - Seria Medica (Sep 2023)

Evaluating demand of High Dependency Unit beds in a hospital with insights on return on capital investment

  • Daga Sonia,
  • Prasad Janipalli Lakshmi,
  • Kumar Naveen P.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/amma-2023-0033
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 69, no. 3
pp. 208 – 212

Abstract

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Introduction: Hospital administration will have to constantly work around predicting demand of the critical care beds and evaluating the options of expanding the existing capacity. These expansions will be constantly requested by clinicians in private hospitals in India. It becomes imperative to infuse capital into such expansions predicting the utilisation pattern of the new beds. This study concentrates on factors considered for estimating the infrastructure enhancement in step down beds in progression of patient care.

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