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A New Approach for Understanding International Hospital Bed Numbers and Application to Local Area Bed Demand and Capacity Planning by Jones, Rodney P

“…Three models/methods are given to understand the extreme international variation in available and occupied hospital bed numbers. These models/methods all rely…”
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Addressing the Knowledge Deficit in Hospital Bed Planning and Defining an Optimum Region for the Number of Different Types of Hospital Beds in an Effective Health Care System by Jones, Rodney P

“…Based upon 30-years of research by the author, a new approach to hospital bed planning and international benchmarking is proposed. The number of hospital beds…”
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The text is reading you: teaching language in the age of the algorithm by Jones, Rodney H.

“…•Algorithms affect practices of reading and writing as well as broader patterns of language use, communication and consumption.•This paper describes a…”
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Commentary: Critical Digital Literacies as Action, Affinity, and Affect by Jones, Rodney H.

“…The authors of this series of brief reports offer a more nuanced and holistic view of critical digital literacies, one which, recognizes that literacy is not…”
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A Model to Compare International Hospital Bed Numbers, including a Case Study on the Role of Indigenous People on Acute 'Occupied' Bed Demand in Australian States by Jones, Rodney P

“…Comparing international or regional hospital bed numbers is not an easy matter, and a pragmatic method has been proposed that plots the number of beds per 1000…”
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Would the United States Have Had Too Few Beds for Universal Emergency Care in the Event of a More Widespread Covid-19 Epidemic? by Jones, Rodney P

“…(1) Background: To evaluate the level of hospital bed numbers in U.S. states relative to other countries using a new method for evaluating bed numbers, and to…”
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Excess Winter Mortality (EWM) as a Dynamic Forensic Tool: Where, When, Which Conditions, Gender, Ethnicity and Age by Jones, Rodney P

“…To investigate the dynamic issues behind intra- and international variation in EWM (Excess Winter Mortality) using a rolling monthly EWM calculation. This is…”
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A pragmatic method to compare international critical care beds: Implications to pandemic preparedness and non‐pandemic planning by Jones, Rodney P.

“…Background The current method for assessing critical care (CCU) bed numbers between countries is unreliable. Methods A pragmatic method is presented using a…”
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A simple method to validate medical bed number calculations by Jones, Rodney P.

“…•Current bed models can be easily manipulated to give answers which are too low.•The nearness-to-death effect is far more important than previously thought…”
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Trends in Excess Winter Mortality (EWM) from 1900/01 to 2019/20-Evidence for a Complex System of Multiple Long-Term Trends by Jones, Rodney P, Ponomarenko, Andriy

“…Trends in excess winter mortality (EWM) were investigated from the winter of 1900/01 to 2019/20. During the 1918-1919 Spanish flu epidemic a maximum EWM of…”
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Were the hospital bed reductions proposed by English Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in the sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) achievable? Insights from a new model to compare international bed numbers by Jones, Rodney P.

“…A new model for hospital bed numbers which adjusts for end‐of‐life care and age structure is used to demonstrate that England has 20% fewer occupied beds than…”
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Commentary: How to have agency in a pandemic by Jones, Rodney H

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Generic intertextuality in online social activism: The case of the It Gets Better project by Jones, Rodney H.

“…The It Gets Better project has been held up as a model of successful social media activism. This article explores how narrators of It Gets Better videos make…”
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A pragmatic method to compare hospital bed provision between countries and regions: Beds in the States of Australia by Jones, Rodney P.

“…Summary A simple method is presented to evaluate bed numbers between countries using a logarithmic relationship between beds per 1000 deaths and deaths per…”
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Accounting for surveillance by Jones, Rodney H.

“…This contribution discusses the ways people hold themselves and others accountable for everyday practices of surveillance. It analyses three examples: (1) the…”
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Age-specific and year of birth changes in hospital admissions during a period of unexplained higher deaths in England by Jones, Rodney P.

“…Policy makers have assumed that increase in medical demands and costs are attributable to the increasing age of the population and the inability of health and…”
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The calendar year fallacy: The danger of reliance on calendar year data in end‐of‐life capacity and financial planning by Jones, Rodney P.

“…Summary Planners, actuaries, and others involved in forecasting capacity and costs must manipulate historical data. Data from calendar/financial year totals…”
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Periods of unexplained higher deaths and medical admissions have occurred previously – But have apparently been ignored, misinterpreted or not investigated by Jones, Rodney P.

“…•Unexplained periods of higher deaths and medical admissions are an international phenomenon.•Two very large events occurred in 1993 and 2015.•A degree of…”
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Unexplained periods of higher deaths contribute to marginal changes in health care demand and health insurance costs: International perspectives by Jones, Rodney P.

“…Summary Sudden and unexplained increases in hospital medical admissions and population total deaths have been characterized in the United Kingdom. These sudden…”
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A reduction in acute thrombotic admissions during a period of unexplained increased deaths and medical admissions in the UK by Jones, Rodney P.

“…Since 2011 in England there has been a period of unexplained higher deaths and medical admissions which policy makers have assumed are attributable to the…”
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