Hello everyone,
This is my second time using the forum. The first time was a great experience. I received all the help I needed. I need help for the second time now. I was given the following directions.....
You need at a minimum 10 weeks of data of arrivals across every hour of the day.</SPAN>
You graph the peak arrivals on each hour across the 168 hours of the week. That’s the “Peak High”</SPAN>
You take the highest number of arrivals for each hour for the 10 Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, etc. and you take the mean of those 10 observations and you graph it on each of 168 hours in a week. That’s the “Mean High.”</SPAN>
You take the lowest number of arrivals for each hour for the 10 Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, etc. and you take the mean of those 10 observations and you graph it on each of 168 hours in a week. That’s the “Mean Low.”</SPAN>
You take the patients/per hour of your each of your staff and you figure out how many of your staff you need at each of the 168 hours to cover the “Mean High” arrival (demand) rate. This rate approximates 85% of peak demand and is a generally appropriate staffing level. If you take 50 weeks and work with five groups of 10 it gets better and somewhat better still if you go to 100 weeks. It’s important not to align the 10 weeks within one season if you’re looking for an average or do it four times, once for each season and adjust staffing accordingly.</SPAN>
Those of you who run (or have run) ambulance services may recognize this as a (much) simplified version of Unit-hour distribution, also with the geography removed.
Can someone please guide me in the right direction.
Please help me.
Thank You all. </SPAN>
This is my second time using the forum. The first time was a great experience. I received all the help I needed. I need help for the second time now. I was given the following directions.....
You need at a minimum 10 weeks of data of arrivals across every hour of the day.</SPAN>
You graph the peak arrivals on each hour across the 168 hours of the week. That’s the “Peak High”</SPAN>
You take the highest number of arrivals for each hour for the 10 Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, etc. and you take the mean of those 10 observations and you graph it on each of 168 hours in a week. That’s the “Mean High.”</SPAN>
You take the lowest number of arrivals for each hour for the 10 Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, etc. and you take the mean of those 10 observations and you graph it on each of 168 hours in a week. That’s the “Mean Low.”</SPAN>
You take the patients/per hour of your each of your staff and you figure out how many of your staff you need at each of the 168 hours to cover the “Mean High” arrival (demand) rate. This rate approximates 85% of peak demand and is a generally appropriate staffing level. If you take 50 weeks and work with five groups of 10 it gets better and somewhat better still if you go to 100 weeks. It’s important not to align the 10 weeks within one season if you’re looking for an average or do it four times, once for each season and adjust staffing accordingly.</SPAN>
Those of you who run (or have run) ambulance services may recognize this as a (much) simplified version of Unit-hour distribution, also with the geography removed.
Can someone please guide me in the right direction.
Please help me.
Thank You all. </SPAN>
