Work out isolation room requirement instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.
Applies Little's law to isolation demand: rooms needed equal the arrival rate multiplied by the average isolation period.
Rooms required
Rooms = new cases per week x average isolation days / 7
Educational estimate only. Not a substitute for professional clinical judgement, and must not be used to make treatment or dosing decisions.
Halving the isolation period halves the rooms needed just as effectively as halving the case rate.
Cohorting patients with the same organism is the usual mitigation when single rooms run out.