{"id":7047,"date":"2014-05-16T14:19:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2014-05-16T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:54:08","slug":"optimizing-until-we-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/05\/optimizing-until-we-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing until we die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerzteblatt.de\/archiv\/159578\/Krankenhaeuser-Mortalitaet-steigt-bei-hoher-Auslastung?s=krankenhaus+mortalit%E4t\">German \u00c4rzteblatt<\/a> reported recently a study that is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.jbs.cam.ac.uk\/research\/current\/downloads\/120806_stress_on_the_ward.pdf\">\u00a0directly online<\/a>\u00a0accessible and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>confirms the existence of safety tipping points for in-hospital mortality using the discharge records of 82,280 patients across six high-mortality-risk conditions from 256 clinical departments of 83 German hospitals. Focusing on survival during the first seven days following admission, we estimate a mortality tipping point at an occupancy level of 92.5%. Among the 17% of patients in our sample who experienced occupancy above the tipping point during the first seven days of their hospital stay, high occupancy accounted for one in seven deaths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there is an optimum if NOT every room is occupied and NOT\u00a0all time spent for filling out forms.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 21.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0German \u00c4rzteblatt reported recently a study that is\u00a0directly online\u00a0accessible and confirms the existence of safety tipping points for in-hospital mortality using the discharge records of 82,280 patients across six high-mortality-risk conditions from 256 clinical departments of 83 German hospitals. Focusing on survival during the first seven days following admission, we estimate a mortality tipping point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/05\/optimizing-until-we-die\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Optimizing until we die<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7051,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}