Health Care

Bed Occupancy

A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Bed Occupancies
  • Occupancies, Bed
  • Occupancy, Bed

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

coord IM with specific hosp or department (IM) + geog if pertinent

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History Note

78

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Tree Number

  1. N02.278w.050

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NLM Classification

WX 16

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Bed Occupancy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001509. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001509
  2. Bed Occupancy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70489775