These hospitals provided 531,333 beds (equivalent to 6.4 beds per 1000 inhabitants) and treated 16.8 million cases with 8.7 days as the average length of stay [ 31].
A systematic review by Wiffen et al estimated that in the NHS in England, 1.6 million bed days, equivalent to 13.6 (400-bed) hospital equivalents annually are due to in-patient ADRs [4].
To obtain the cost of hospitalization by sector, we multiplied the average LoS for dengue patients in that sector by the cost per bed day equivalent.
Exposure of a young adult in a bathing suit to one minimal erythemal dose (MED) of UV radiation in a tanning bed was equivalent to ingesting approximately 20,000 IUs of vitamin D2 (Fig. 40).
To compute the cost of a dengue hospitalization for each sector, we multiplied the average length of stay for dengue patients obtained from the retrospective study by the cost per bed day equivalent obtained from the macro costing.
28 After adjusting for inflation, the average cost per bed day equivalent and cost per ambulatory visit for the two fiscal years were used to estimate the cost of dengue illness for the year 2012.
Specifically, it became clear that patients institutionalised for mental infirmities and those requiring inotropic support should be eligible for transfer, that a minimum blood pressure of 70 mm Hg was acceptable and that all patients should be transferred to an emergency department resuscitation bed or equivalent with a paramedic ambulance crew usually being acceptable.
We estimated missing items as the product of that hospital's volume (bed day equivalents) times the median cost per bed day equivalent for the missing item in remaining hospitals by sector (private, public).
On the busiest day last winter, 26 January, hospitals had to find a record 4,390 extra beds, the equivalent to the capacity of seven hospitals.
Brooklyn hospitals have a vacancy rate of almost 30 percent and, with more efficiency, could cut more than 1,200 beds — the equivalent of three or four community hospitals, according to a recent state report.
