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HEALTH - FEBRUARY 2024 - REGULATIONS AND HOSPITAL CAPACITY

26 Feb 2024

Regulation 272/21 made it easier to transfer ALC patients to alternative settings, specifically revoking Ontario’s policy experiments in regulating hospital bed usage have been portions of the Health Care Consent Act to optimize transfers and controversial. [...] But what explains the volatility in the number of ALC beds since March implementations of similar provisions in other Canadian and comparable of 2020? A combination of behavioral and regulatory change. [...] Possible explanations include minimal The initial onset of the pandemic prompted families and physicians to complete hospital enforcement of provisions, greater hesitancy to respond by some health discharges both to decrease the risks that patients would be infected, and to free up system regions, or new bottlenecks in other areas. [...] Thereafter however, the figure shows that Waves 2, 4, 6, and even the Omicron Given the magnitude of the ALC crisis in Canadian hospitals, further research wave (which resulted in the highest recorded number of hospitalizations overall) had is needed to determine the independent effects of regulations on health minimal effect on the number of ALC patients occupying acute care beds. [...] www.policyschool.ca Nov 18 Dec 18 Jan 19 Feb 19 Mar 19 Apr 19 May 19 Jun 19 Jul 19 Aug 19 Sep 19 Oct 19 Nov 19 Dec 19 Jan 20 Feb 20 Mar 20 Apr 20 May 20 Jun 20 Jul 20 Aug 20 Sep 20 Oct 20 Nov 20 Dec 20 Jan 21 Feb 21 Mar 21 Apr 21 May 21 Jun 21 Jul 21 Aug 21 Sep 21 Oct 21 Nov 21 Dec 21 Jan 22 Feb 22 Mar 22 Apr 22 May 22 Jun 22 Jul 22 Aug 22 Sep 22 Oct 22 Nov 22 Dec 22 Jan 23 Feb 23 Mar 23 Apr 23 Ma.

Authors

Travis Carpenter, Fahad Razak, Daniel Kobewka, Arnav Agarwal

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