In patient Bed Days

BEDDAYS_FOOTPRINT HSI may require in-patient care to be delivered and this is specified as a number of “Bed Days”. There are three types of ‘Bed Days’ – “non_bed_space”, “general_bed”, “high_dependancy_bed”

An HSI declares requirements of in-patient bed-days, in a ‘footprint’:

BEDDAYS_FOOTPRINT = hsi_nobd.make_beddays_footprint({'non_bed_space': 0, 'general_bed': 4, 'high_dependency_bed': 1})

NB. You can drop any of the terms and an implicit value 0 is assumed. NB. You do not need to specify any footprint, in which case it is assumed that 0 bed-days are needed.

The health-system keeps track of usage of bed-days. The first day on which a bed-day is consumed is the day on which the HSI is run. If two types of bed-days are specified, then it assumed that then run sequentially and in order of decreasing intensity (i.e. ‘high_dependancy_bed > general_bed > non_bed_space). The number of bed-days is given in terms of ‘whole days’.

The HIS will be run irrespective of the number of the bed-days available. The property of the HSI_Event, self.bed_days_allocated_to_this_event, informs on the bed-days that have been allocated to the HSI_Event. For each type of bed, this will range between 0 and the number specified in the footprint.