In developing countries, the management of inpatient
bed allocation is increasingly becoming complex as a
result of inadequate bed capacity, poor scheduling policies
and financial constraints in hospitals. The use of a decision
based system could aid hospital staff and health decision
makers to carry out efficient in-patient beds allocation, thus
potentially reducing costs and in-patient length of stay. This
study developed a Decision Based Management System for
Hospital Bed Allocation in other to enhance easy accessibility
and efficient bed allocation in the hospital in a fairly and
timely manner using State Specialist Hospital, Akure, Ondo
State, Nigeria as case study and Microsoft Visual Studio, C#,
ASP.net and SQL SERVER 2005 tools for the
implementation. The analysis of the manual method served as
the input used to developed and experiment the
functionalities of the proposed system.
Published In : IJCAT Journal Volume 2, Issue 11
Date of Publication : November 2015
Pages : 473 - 477
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Publication Link :Decision Based Management System for Hospital
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Adesuyi Akinwale Tosin : presently a Software Engineer with the
Computer Resource Center of the Federal University of
Technology Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. He holds a Master’s
degree in Computer Science from The Federal University of
Technology Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria in 2014. He has papers
published in reputable journals. His areas of research include; Elearning,
Ontology, Computer and Network Security, and Machine
learning, Data mining and Data Science.
Asogbon Mojisola Grace : holds a Master’s degree in Computer
Science from The Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo
State, Nigeria in 2015. Her areas of research include; Database
Management, Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data mining and
Knowledge Discovery.
Akinladenu Stella Ademayowa : presently a Maters student at the
department of Computer Science Federal University of Technology
Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. Her areas of research include; Soft
Computing and Computer Networks.
OladojaIlobekemen Perpetual : presently a PhD student at the
department of Computer Science Federal University of Technology
Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. She holds a Master’s degree in
Computer Science from the same University in 2014. She has
published quite a number of scientific papers in her research
interest areas which spans E-learning, Ontology, Web Technology
Language and Data mining.
Hospital
In-patient
Bed Allocation
Decision Management System
Bed Allocation Model
The enormous importance of hospital bed allocation model
has been identified with emphasis on their use in
allocating bed space to hospital patient and also deallocating
them, and also in the management of hospital
equipment. The main technique used in the software
development of this project is Bed Allocation Model
(BAM)which is used to analyze mathematical approach of
how beds are allocated, de-allocated and priority levels
and emergency cases in hospital. The allocation is based
on patient classified category wards as prescribed by the
physician.
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