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When dealing with bed-occupancy management and hospital planning, one must take into account many factors, whether we are discussing diseases, patients’ characteristics, cultural background, budget, local and national political considerations, etc. Daily, hospital managers are faced with decision-making processes, having to find the correct balance between all of the abovementioned aspects. The aim of this chapter is to provide scientifically valid models of healthcare planning that can be applied cross-national.
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Belciug, S. (2022). Bed-Occupancy Management and Hospital Planning: A Handbook. In: Shen, H., Zeng, Y., Li, L., Wang, X. (eds) Regionalized Management of Medicine. Translational Bioinformatics, vol 17. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7893-6_10
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