Table 3.

Simulation Results on the Effects of Increasing the Patient Admission Rate for 23 and 28 Beds (Scenario B)

No. of Beds	23			28
Percentage increase in arrival rates, %	0	4	8	0	4	8
Total number of arrivals (per year)	1,455.23	1,510.54	1,569.73	1,455.23	1,510.54	1,569.73
Percentage of time at or above 75% utilization, %	92.86	95.52	98.69	64.23	70.94	75.05
Percentage of time at 100% utilization, %	68.37	77.02	91.70	10.17	11.55	18.86

Simulation model was built from detailed patient flow description and data available for the two critical care units between 2016 and 2018. Model results are an average obtained over 30 independent random trials of our model, where each trial uses a different initial random seed to sample from the defined distributions. Bold indicates percentage changes compared to baseline.