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1Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. s.gallivan@ucl.ac.uk
Abstract:
A common method for modelling emergency referrals to a hospital in-patient unit is to assume that they follow a Poisson distribution. If lengths of stay are independent and identically distributed, then the distribution of bed demand can be derived by analysis of a queueing system with an infinite number of servers. Undemanding analysis can be used to express the mean and variance of bed demand in terms of simple formulae involving mean referral rates and the distribution of lengths of stay.
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