Analysis of Bed Allocation and Utilization Efficiency of Hospitals in Shenzhen / 中国医院管理

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the allocation and utilization efficiency of hospital beds from 2017-2021,and to provide a reference for the optimal allocation of hospital bed resources in Shenzhen.Methods Descriptive statistics method,bed efficiency index and bed utilization model were used to evaluate the hospital bed allocation and utilization efficiency of Shenzhen hospitals for 5 years.Results The number of beds in Shenzhen increased every year,with the highest growth rate of 21.54%,and the number of beds per 1000 resident population increased from 3.04 in 2017 to 3.25 in 2021.From the bed efficiency index,all three types of hospitals(general hospitals,specialized hospitals,traditional Chinese medicine hospitals)in Shenzhen are operating at low efficiency.Government-run hospitals are operating at high efficiency except for 2020,while socially-run hospitals are operating at low efficiency for five years,with bed efficiency indexs below 0.4.From the bed utilization model,Shenzhen general hospitals are turnover hospitals,Chinese medicine hospitals are bed-pressure hospitals for the first two years and then turn into efficiency hospitals,and specialty hospitals are idle hospitals.The government-run hospitals were efficient hospitals for 5 years,while the socially-run hospitals were idle hospitals for 5 years.Conclusion It is necessary to reasonably allocate health resources to increase the number of beds,improve the ability of hospitals to admit and absorb patients,and improve the operational efficiency of beds;the improvement and upgrading of beds in various types of hospitals should be tailored to local conditions to promote the realization of the continuity of care by integrating the concept of health care.