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Key principles for Pediatric/Neonatal Inpatient Capacity Planning in the Face of Uncertain and Volatile Future Demand, Effect of Department Size on Costs, and How to Discern if Sources of Advice Have Genuine Expertise

2025-07-07

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Pediatric/neonatal bed demand unsurprisingly depend on the trend in local births. Periods of higher births generate a capacity shock, where length of stay (LOS) is reduced, sometimes by premature discharge or transfer to another hospital, to squeeze arriving patients into existing bed capacity. Similar capacity shocks occur during the autumn/winter/spring period when volatile levels of circulating pathogens, aller...

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Literature Corpus work: 83de1817-babc-5281-a889-6de68a747688
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202507.0458.v1

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