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Better medical efficiency by means of hospital bed management optimization - a ...
Lobo, Afonso Augusto Paula; Barbosa, Agostinho; Guimarães, Tiago André Saraiva; Lopes, João; Peixoto, Hugo; Santos, ManuelThe combination of the phenomenon of overcrowding with inefficient management of resources is a major obstacle to the good performance of hospital units and consequently the degradation of the medical service provided. This paper provides an analysis to understand the correlation between poor bed allocation and hospital performance. The lack of an efficient resource planning among the various medical specialtie...
Determining internal medicine length of stay by means of predictive analytics
Peixoto, Diogo; Faria, Mariana; Macedo, Rui; Peixoto, Hugo; Lopes, João; Barbosa, Agostinho; Guimarães, Tiago André Saraiva; Santos, ManuelIn recent years, hospital overcrowding has become a crucial aspect to take into consideration in inpatient management, which may negatively affect the quality of service provided to the patient. Inpatient management aims, through efficient planning, to maximise the availability of beds and conditions for the patient, considering cost rationalisation. In this way, this research has allowed the prediction of the ...
Predictive analytics for hospital inpatient flow determination
Peixoto, Diogo; Barbosa, Agostinho; Peixoto, Hugo; Lopes, João; Guimarães, Tiago André Saraiva; Santos, ManuelCurrently, the efficient planning of resources in hospitals present a responsibility of extreme importance in the management of the various clinical units. In Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a hospital service where patients require constant observation and control, considering the high costs incurred with hospitalized patients, the optimization of these factors assumes an extremely important role. Given its unpredi...
Intelligent decision support in beds management and hospital planning
Macedo, Rui; Barbosa, Agostinho; Lopes, João; Santos, ManuelWorldwide, due to the constant overcrowding experienced in hospitals, hospital beds are one of the most needed resources, proving to be an extremely important feature in hospitalization planning and management, since the main purpose is to optimize their occupancy rate. This study aims to predict the future flow of patients after admission to a particular inpatient specialty to allow a more assertive planning b...
Predictive analytics for hospital discharge flow determination
Faria, Mariana; Barbosa, Agostinho; Guimarães, Tiago André Saraiva; Lopes, João; Santos, ManuelIn recent years, hospitals around the world are faced with large patient flows, which negatively affect the quality of patient care and become a crucial factor to consider in inpatient management. The main objective of this management is to maximize the number of available beds, using efficient planning. Intensive Care Units (ICU) are hospital units with a higher monetary consumption, and the importance of indi...
Social Role in Organizational Management - Understanding People Behavior and Mo...
Maia, Nuno; Neves, Mariana; Barbosa, Agostinho; Carrulo, Bruno; Araújo, Nuno; Fernandes, Ana; Vicente, Dinis; Ribeiro, Jorge; Vicente, HenriqueThe aim of this work is to respond to the need to rethink the behavior and motiva-tion of employees in their relationship with managers and social groups, i.e., one`s main goal is based on increasing engagement in order to reach organiza-tional goals and job workers satisfaction, a complex concept that is influenced by different causes. Indeed, in this work it is analyzed the impact of working condi-tions on jo...
Social Role in Organizational Management Understanding People Behavior and Moti...
Maia, Nuno; Neves, Mariana; Barbosa, Agostinho; Carrulo, Bruno; Araújo, Nuno; Fernandes, Ana; Vicente, Dinis; Ribeiro, Jorge; Vicente, HenriqueThe aim of this work is to respond to the need to rethink the behavior and motivation of employees in their relationship with managers and social groups, i.e., one’s main goal is based on increasing engagement in order to reach organizational goals and job workers satisfaction, a complex concept that is influenced by different causes. Indeed, in this work it is analyzed the impact of working conditions on job s...