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dc.contributor.author | Hellervik, A | - |
dc.contributor.author | Rodgers, GJ | - |
dc.coverage.spatial | 9 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-17T15:20:16Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-17T15:20:16Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 379: 235-240, Jul 2006 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03784371 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/551 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The distribution of patients' lengths of stay in English hospitals is measured by using routinely collected data from 11 years. It is found to be well approximated by a power law distribution spanning over more than 3 decades. To explain this observation, a theoretical resource allocation model is presented. It is based on iterative long-term scheduling of hospital beds, and its main assumption is that future beds are allocated preferentially. This represents a situation where diĀ®erent parts of the health care system compete for resources, with bargaining powers proportional to current resource levels. | en |
dc.format.extent | 294203 bytes | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en |
dc.subject | Health Care | en |
dc.subject | Power law distributions | en |
dc.subject | Preferential attachment | en |
dc.subject | Resource competition | en |
dc.subject | Rate equation | en |
dc.title | A power law distribution in patients' lengths of stay in hospital | en |
dc.type | Research Paper | en |
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