Toward a bed management standard: results of a multi-center study in Italy

Background Few papers have been published about hospital bed management (BM), and the proposed models are poorly detailed. In Italy, given Hospital bed cuts and worsening Emergency Departments (ED) overcrowding, several BM experiences are growing-up, in most cases on a self-made, empiric basis. Aim of our study was to analyze and compare existing BM models in a sample of Italian Hospitals then to propose a standard for this Hospital function. Methods Participating Hospitals were …