Assessing available care time and nursing shortage in a hospital

Romain Biard (), Marc Deschamps, Mostapha Diss and Alexis Roussel ()
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Romain Biard: Université de Franche-Comté, CNRS, LmB, F-25000 Besançon, France
Alexis Roussel: Université de Franche-Comté, CRESE, UR3190, F-25000 Besançon, France

No 2024-03, Working Papers from CRESE

Abstract: Health is one of the main components of well-being and medical progress has enabled many people to live better lives than at any time in history. Moreover, since the second half of the 20th century, the right to health has been recognized as a human right by international law as well as by many national laws. Unfortunately for many years now - and the phenomenon has become even more acute since COVID-19 pandemic - there has been a worldwide shortage of healthcare workers. This is particularly true for nurses, especially in poor countries. The aim of the paper is to help assess the number of nurses needed to ensure both healthier care- givers and healthier patients. To achieve this goal, we propose a model with random arrivals and exits of patients who may be of a single type (or several), and calculate the average care time they can receive. The results are given in closed form when arrivals follow a Poisson probability distribution. We also propose an analysis of the impact of working conditions on the average time that can be devoted to a patient.

Keywords: Hospital; random arrivals; random exits; types of patients; available care time; nurses working conditions; Poisson distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2024-01
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Journal Article: Assessing Available Care Time and Nursing Shortage in a Hospital (2024)
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