Daily patient flow unevenness in different sized delivery hospitals - An 11-year register study of 610 227 deliveries.

OBJECTIVES To describe the unevenness in daily patient flow (quiet, optimal and busy days) in different sized delivery hospitals. STUDY DESIGN Population based register-study of 610 227 hospital deliveries. Data were collected from the Finnish Medical Birth Register from 2006 to 2016. Delivery hospitals (N = 26) were stratified into four categories by annual delivery volume: C1  50% of the mean to 

Keywords:

• population based
• Staffing
• Emergency medicine
• patient flow
• register study
• Medicine
• birth register

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