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Healthcare Operations & Administration

Bed Management and Patient Flow

Why hospitals block, and what actually moves patients through.

professional180 min5 lessons
Bed Management and Patient Flow

What you'll learn

  • Identify the constraint in a described flow problem
  • Interpret demand and capacity data to locate a mismatch
  • Apply criteria-led discharge to a described patient
  • Evaluate a discharge process for avoidable delay
  • Recommend an escalation action appropriate to a described pressure level
  • Select the metric that would reveal a stated flow question

Course content

5 modules · 5 lessons

1. Occupancy Is Not Flow
  • Occupancy Is Not FlowPreview36m
2. Demand and Capacity
  • Demand and Capacity36m
3. Discharge From Admission
  • Discharge From Admission36m
4. Queues and Variation
  • Queues and Variation36m
5. Escalation and Metrics
  • Escalation and Metrics36m