Variation of Daily Care Demand in Swiss General Hospitals: Longitudinal Study on Capacity Utilization, Patient Turnover and Clinical Complexity Levels.
Narayan SharmaRené SchwendimannOlga EndrichDietmar AusserhoferMichael SimonPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2021)
While admissions and discharges drive capacity utilization and patient turnover variation, disease severity of each patient drives patient clinical complexity level. Monitoring-and, if possible, anticipating-daily care demand fluctuations is key to managing hospital pressure zones. This study provides a pathway for identifying patients' daily exposure to strained hospital systems for a time-varying causal model.