No more winter crisis? Forecasting daily bed requirements for emergency department admissions to hospital

Autor: Dominique Brun-Ney, Enrique Casalino, Mathias Wargon, Laure Beaujouan
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: European Journal of Emergency Medicine. 25:250-256
ISSN: 0969-9546
DOI: 10.1097/mej.0000000000000451
Popis: STUDY HYPOTHESIS We hypothesized that age, calendar variables, and clinical influenza epidemics may have an impact on the number of daily through-emergency department (ED) hospitalizations. The aim of our study was to elaborate a pragmatic tool to predict the daily number of through-ED hospitalizations. METHODS We carried out a prospective-observational study including data from 18 ED located in the Paris metropolitan area. Daily through-ED hospitalizations numbers from 2007 to 2010 were modelized to forecast the year 2011 using a general linear model by age groups (
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