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## Study objective: National policy for emergency preparedness calls for hospitals to accommodate surges of 500 new patients per million population in a disaster, but published studies have not evaluated the ability of existing resources to meet these goals. we describe typical statewide and regional hospital occupancy and patterns of variation in occupancy and estimate the ability of hospitals to accommodate new inpatients. ## Methods: Daily hospital occupancy for each hospital was calculated according to admission date and length of stay for each patient during the study period. occupancy was expressed as the count of occupied beds. peak hospital capacity was defined as the 95th percentile highest occupancy at each facility. data obtained from the new york statewide planning and research cooperative system were analyzed for 1996 to 2002. patients were classified as children (0 to 14 years, excluding newborns) or adults. vacant hospital beds per million age-specific population were determined as the difference between peak capacity and average occupancy. ## Results: In new york state, 242 hospitals cared for a peak capacity of 2,707 children and 46,613 adults. occupancy averaged 6

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Author

Robert K. Kanter; John R. Moran

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Mosby Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1097-6760)

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)