Assessing the impacts of COVID-19 vaccination programme's timing and speed on health benefits, cost-effectiveness, and relative affordability in 27 African countries

Y Liu, SR Procter, CAB Pearson, AM Montero… - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 vaccine supply shortage in 2021 constrained roll-out efforts in
Africa while populations experienced waves of epidemics. As supply improves, a key …

Development of a model by LASSO to predict hospital length of stay (LOS) in patients with the SARS-Cov-2 omicron variant

J Zhang, L Li, X Hu, G Cui, R Sun, D Zhang, J Li, Y Li… - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The length of stay (LOS) in hospital varied considerably in different patients with COVID-19
caused by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The study aimed to explore the clinical …

Comparative assessment of methods for short-term forecasts of COVID-19 hospital admissions in England at the local level

S Meakin, S Abbott, N Bosse, J Munday, H Gruson… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Forecasting healthcare demand is essential in epidemic settings, both to inform
situational awareness and facilitate resource planning. Ideally, forecasts should be robust …

Optimal COVID-19 lockdown strategies in an age-structured SEIR model of Northern Ireland

GM Abernethy, DH Glass - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An age-structured SEIR model simulates the propagation of COVID-19 in the population of
Northern Ireland. It is used to identify optimal timings of short-term lockdowns that enable …

EpiBeds: Data informed modelling of the COVID-19 hospital burden in England

CE Overton, L Pellis, HB Stage… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic put considerable strain on healthcare systems
worldwide. In order to predict the effect of the local epidemic on hospital capacity in England …

Innovation sharing a remedial measure: the case of Covid-19 pandemic

S Ali, J Ashraf, M Ghufran, P Xiaobao… - European Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study has aimed to analyse the role of innovation-sharing collaboration in the
large-scale manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccination across the globe and its impact on the …

A novel strategy to classify chronic patients at risk: a hybrid machine learning approach

F Silva-Aravena, HN Delafuente, CA Astudillo - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Various care processes have been affected by COVID-19. One of the most dramatic has
been the care of chronic patients under medical supervision. According to the World Health …

Estimating distribution of length of stay in a multi-state model conditional on the pathway, with an application to patients hospitalised with Covid-19

RH Keogh, K Diaz-Ordaz, NP Jewell, MG Semple… - Lifetime data …, 2023 - Springer
Multi-state models are used to describe how individuals transition through different states
over time. The distribution of the time spent in different states, referred to as 'length of stay', is …

Bed allocation optimization based on survival analysis, treatment trajectory and costs estimations

K Karbouband, M Tabaa - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The intensive care units are a key element of patient flow, but due to high demand and an
alternating rate of arriving patients, these units are often challenged by insufficient capacity …

Information management of full-cycle inpatient bed reservation for cancer patients under the normalised prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic

Y Yang, Y Bin, M Yanping, Z Jinping, Z Xin… - BMC Health Services …, 2024 - Springer
Background During the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals became focal points for
normalised prevention and control. In this study, we investigated the feasibility of an …