Journal article
Five-year trend analysis of capacity utilization measures in a teaching hospital 2008-2012
Shiraz e-medical journal, Vol.16(2), e21176
02/20/2015
DOI: 10.17795/semj21176
Abstract
Background:
Evaluation of hospitals performance determines what hospitals really do, and define deficiencies with regard to the original standards and identify opportunities for improvement.
Objectives:
We investigated trends in the performance of a hospital with capacity utilization measures used in Pabon Lasso (PL) model.
Materials and Methods:
In this cross-sectional descriptive study from March 2008 to March 2012, we retrieved all performance data from the Hospital Information System of Shahid Faghihi Hospital, a public teaching hospital in Shiraz, Iran. Measurements included changes in the trend of three indices: bed turnover, bed occupancy rate, and average length of stay.
Results:
The trends in hospital performance showed a decrease in mean (median) hospital stay from 6.77 (± 3.11) days in 2008 to 4.25 (± 2.70) days in 2012. In 2008, bed turnover was 50.03 times/year, bed occupancy rate was 92.9% and turnover interval was 0.51 days. In 2012, these indices were 60.8 times/year, 70.9%, and 1.74 days, respectively. These measures in PL model showed that Shahid Faghihi Hospital was located in zone 4 during 2008-2009, zone 1 during 2010-2011, and zone 3 during 2012, indicating an acceptable degree of efficiency and an optimal level of performance.
Conclusions:
This hospital showed relative improvements in all capacity utilization measures in 2012. Future efforts should examine new interventions to further increase the hospital’s performance capacity.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Five-year trend analysis of capacity utilization measures in a teaching hospital 2008-2012
- Creators
- Seyed Masoom Masoompour - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesPeyman Petramfar - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesPouya Farhadi - Shiraz University of Medical SciencesHamideh Mahdaviazad - Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Shiraz e-medical journal, Vol.16(2), e21176
- DOI
- 10.17795/semj21176
- ISSN
- 1735-1391
- eISSN
- 1735-1391
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/20/2015
- Academic Unit
- Neurology
- Record Identifier
- 9985014706502771
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