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Subforecasts for the medical and surgical specialties, and for different lengths of stay were realised<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Autoregressive integrated moving average models were specified on a training dataset of daily count data, then tested on a 6-week forecast horizon. 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