TY - JOUR T1 - Analysis of bed occupancy data on the acute medical unit JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - s84 LP - s85 DO - 10.7861/fhj.7.1.s84 VL - 7 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Danil Baykov AU - Anne Skeldon AU - Martin Whyte Y1 - 2020/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/Suppl_1/s84.abstract N2 - Hospitals may struggle to operate effectively and meet quality standards when unscheduled (emergency) admission rates are high in relation to operational capacity. Understanding patterns of ward admission and discharge from acute medical units (AMU) can help inform resource allocation. Discharges early in the day are advocated as a means to improve bed management, but delays may arise from post-AMU bed availability. It is unclear whether any change in AMU discharge patterns pre-dates hospital-wide pressure or whether it is a reaction to it.Anonymous data from 1 Jan 2016 to 31 December 2017 comprising the … ER -