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Hospital indicators after implementation of bed regulation strategies: an integrative review
Rayane Nascimbeni Maldonado1, Renata Olszewski Savio1, Vivian Biazon El Reda Feijó1
1Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
Objectives:
to analyze the scientific evidence available in literature on hospital indicators after implementation of bed regulation strategies.
Methods:
this is an integrative review conducted with studies available in five databases and in the reference database of the Center for Study and Research in Nursing Services Management in October 2019. Articles on hospital bed management, available in full in English, Spanish or Portuguese, without temporal delimitation were included.
Results:
1,118 eligible articles were found, of which 37 were duplicated. Among 1,081 pre-selected studies, 112 studies were eligible and 11 articles were included. Six studies addressed the emergency services. Three addressed hospital indicators in general, another focused on a psychiatric ward and one analyzed the indicators of two hospitals administered differently.
Conclusions:
the studies focused on emergency services, demonstrating the importance of organizing these services for health institutions.
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