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Managing Inpatient Units

In: Healthcare Analytics

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  • Diwakar Gupta

    (The University of Texas at Austin)

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Nursing costs are a significant portion of hospitals’ operating expenditures. This chapter discusses the challenges associated with choosing staffing levels and the pros and cons of hedging strategies, such as float pools and delayed bed assignments, for inpatient unit staffing. This chapter may be taught with the help of Eagle Health (B), a short case on inpatient unit staffing that comes with data and introduces students to common industry terms and managerial challenges.

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  • Diwakar Gupta, 2026. "Managing Inpatient Units," Springer Texts in Business and Economics, in: Healthcare Analytics, chapter 0, pages 99-104, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sptchp:978-3-032-24835-0_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-24835-0_12
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