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Bed management

Meaning in healthcare management, with examples

nounCommon term

In healthcare management, bed management means: The daily work of tracking which beds are free, which patients need them and where each patient should go, so that beds are used well.

In Turkish: yatak yönetimi

How it is used

Many hospitals have a bed management team or bed managers and hold bed meetings several times a day. Electronic bed boards show the status of every bed in real time: occupied, empty, being cleaned or closed.

Example sentences

  1. Bed management asked the surgical ward to take two medical patients overnight.

  2. The new software made bed management much faster than the old whiteboard.

Common collocations

  • bed management team
  • bed manager
  • bed meeting
  • electronic bed board
  • capacityThe amount of care a hospital or service can provide with its beds, staff, rooms and equipment in a given time.
  • bed occupancy rateThe percentage of a hospital's available beds that are filled by patients over a given period, used to judge how busy the hospital is.
  • patient flowThe movement of patients through a hospital or health system, from arrival and assessment to treatment, transfer and discharge, ideally without unnecessary delays.
  • discharge planningPreparing early for a patient's safe exit from hospital, including medicines, follow-up appointments, equipment and support at home.

More terms: Patient Flow and Capacity

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