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Gregory M Garrison1, Jennifer L Pecina2
1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA garrison.gregory@mayo.edu.
Abstract:
The number and timing of unplanned admissions to inpatient teaching services vary. Recent changes to resident duty hours make it essential to maximize learning experiences and balance workload on these services. Queueing theory provides a mechanism for understanding and planning for the variations in admissions and daily census. Daily admissions, length of stay, and daily census were modeled for a teaching inpatient family medicine service over 46 months using an M/G/∞ queueing model. Q-Q plots and a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test were used to check the fit of actual data to the model. Admissions and daily census followed a Poisson distribution (λ = 3.28 and λ = 8.28, respectively), while length-of-stay followed a lognormal distribution (µ = 0.49, σ2 = 0.83). The M/G/∞ queueing model proved useful for predicting overflow admission frequency, defining expected resident workload in terms of patient-days, and determining hospital unit size requirements.
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