Guided Notes

Operations & Capacity Analytics

Patient flow, bed occupancy and census by hour, ED and OR throughput, staffing to demand, forecasting volumes, and queueing intuition.

Patient flow

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Hospitals are connected systems: ED → inpatient beds → discharge → post-acute care. • A bottleneck anywhere backs up everything upstream (e.g. slow discharges → no beds → ED boarding → long ED waits → LWBS). • Analysts measure each step's timing and find the constraint. • Common metrics: census by hour, occupancy, ED boarding hours, discharge time of day, OR utilization, transfer center delays.

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