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Author : Brant E Fries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642931685
Author : Brant E. Fries
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642931673
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Author : Cengiz Kahraman,Y. Ilker Topcu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319654553
This book offers a comprehensive reference guide to operations research theory and applications in health care systems. It provides readers with all the necessary tools for solving health care problems. The respective chapters, written by prominent researchers, explain a wealth of both basic and advanced concepts of operations research for the management of operating rooms, intensive care units, supply chain, emergency medical service, human resources, lean health care, and procurement. To foster a better understanding, the chapters include relevant examples or case studies. Taken together, they form an excellent reference guide for researchers, lecturers and postgraduate students pursuing research on health care management problems. The book presents a dynamic snapshot on the field that is expected to stimulate new directions and stimulate new ideas and developments.
Author : Margaret L. Brandeau,Francois Sainfort,William P. Pierskalla
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402080661
In both rich and poor nations, public resources for health care are inadequate to meet demand. Policy makers and health care providers must determine how to provide the most effective health care to citizens using the limited resources that are available. This chapter describes current and future challenges in the delivery of health care, and outlines the role that operations research (OR) models can play in helping to solve those problems. The chapter concludes with an overview of this book – its intended audience, the areas covered, and a description of the subsequent chapters. KEY WORDS Health care delivery, Health care planning HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES 3 1.1 WORLDWIDE HEALTH: THE PAST 50 YEARS Human health has improved significantly in the last 50 years. In 1950, global life expectancy was 46 years [1]. That figure rose to 61 years by 1980 and to 67 years by 1998 [2]. Much of these gains occurred in low- and middle-income countries, and were due in large part to improved nutrition and sanitation, medical innovations, and improvements in public health infrastructure.
Author : Brian T. Denton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461458852
From the Preface: Collectively, the chapters in this book address application domains including inpatient and outpatient services, public health networks, supply chain management, and resource constrained settings in developing countries. Many of the chapters provide specific examples or case studies illustrating the applications of operations research methods across the globe, including Africa, Australia, Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Chapters 1-4 review operations research methods that are most commonly applied to health care operations management including: queuing, simulation, and mathematical programming. Chapters 5-7 address challenges related to inpatient services in hospitals such as surgery, intensive care units, and hospital wards. Chapters 8-10 cover outpatient services, the fastest growing part of many health systems, and describe operations research models for primary and specialty care services, and how to plan for patient no-shows. Chapters 12 – 16 cover topics related to the broader integration of health services in the context of public health, including optimizing the location of emergency vehicles, planning for mass vaccination events, and the coordination among different parts of a health system. Chapters 17-18 address supply chain management within hospitals, with a focus on pharmaceutical supply management, and the challenges of managing inventory for nursing units. Finally, Chapters 19-20 provide examples of important and emerging research in the realm of humanitarian logistics.
Author : Yuehwern Yih
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1439803625
With rapidly rising healthcare costs directly impacting the economy and quality of life, resolving improvement challenges in areas such as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, and equity has become paramount. Using a system engineering perspective, Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems offers theoretical foundations, methodologies, and case studies in each main sector of the system. It explores how system engineering methodologies and their applications in designing, evaluating, and optimizing the operations of the healthcare system could improve patient outcomes and cost effectiveness. The book presents an overview of current challenges in the healthcare system and the potential impact of system engineering. It describes an integrated framework for the delivery system and the tools and methodologies used for performance assessment and process improvement with examples of lean concept, evidence-based practice and risk assessment. The book then reviews system engineering methodologies and technologies and their applications in healthcare. Moving on to coverage of the design, planning, control and management of healthcare systems, the book contains chapters on 12 services sectors: preventive care, telemedicine, transplant, pharmacy, ED/ICU, OR, decontamination, laboratory, emergency response, mental health, food and supplies, and information technology. It presents the state-of-the-art operations and examines the challenges in each service unit. While system engineering concepts have been broadly applied in healthcare systems, most improvements have focused on a specific segment or unit of the delivery system. Each unit has strong interactions with others and any significant improvement is more likely to be sustained over time by integrating the process and re-evaluating the system design from a holistic viewpoint. By providing an overview of individual operational sectors in the extremely complex healthcare system and introducing a wide array of engineering methods and tools, this handbook establishes the foundation to facilitate integrated system thinking to redesign the next generation healthcare system.
Author : James R. Langabeer II,Jeffrey Helton
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781284050066
Health Care Operations Management: A Systems Perspective, Second Edition provides comprehensive and practical coverage of all aspects of operations management specific to the healthcare industry. It covers everything from hospital finances to project management, patient flows, performance management, process improvement, and supply chain management. This is an ideal text for university courses in healthcare management at all levels. It is also an excellent professional reference for healthcare administrators, clinical support managers, and supply chain professionals. The Second Edition has been thoroughly updated with the most recent data, statistics, and references. It also offers expanded coverage of quality, financial, and systems management, as well as a new chapter entitled "Operational Metrics in Health Care Organization".
Author : William B. Rouse,Denis A. Cortese
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781607505327
The US healthcare system has many excellent components; strong scientific input, extraordinary technology for diagnosis and treatment, dedicated staff and top-class facilities among them. But the system has evolved haphazardly over time and although it has not failed entirely, the authors argue that like any system where attention, is paid to individual components at the expense of the system as a whole, it can never hope to succeed. Above all, they point out that the US system does not provide high value healthcare; it has the highest costs in the world and yet many other countries have lower infant mortality rates and better life expectancy. --
Author : N. K. Kwak,Homer H. Schmitz,Marc J. Schniederjans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UCAL:B4347684
This collection of articles illustrates the application of operations research to aid in health care decision making and planning. The articles provide an insight into not only the application of the techniques themselves but also to the process of actually developing and implementing the models for effective decision making. This helpful text will be of interest to hospital administrators, health care planners, consultants, and students.
Author : Stephen J. Duckett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642933431
Operations research aims to assist managers faced with problems of coordinating activities; improving the quality of care of services delivered; making optimal resource allocation decisions and generally, managing services and institutions. Operations research (or O.R.) was originally developed in response to the problems of the second World War. It was characterised then by a unifying and clear objective; clear problems that had to be solved and the use of inter-disciplinary teams to analyse and solve identified problems. This analysis often drew on mathematical techniques. After the war, operations research moved in two separate but related directions. In England, the emphasis on inter-disciplinary approaches and problem solving teams remained. The operations researcher still used mathematical techniques but these were not systematised into a volume of standard formulae. The emphasis of operations research was on the approach not the tools used (see, for example, Luckman & Stringer, 1974; also Luck, Luckman, Smith & Stringer 1971; and McLachlan, 1975). In the United States, the emphasis was placed on the use of mathematical techniques. Operations research became a mathematically based science relying on standardised models (e. g. queuing, allocation) and formulae. This approach was facilitated by the availability of computers.
Author : Margaret L. Brandeau,Francois Sainfort,William P. Pierskalla
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1402076290
In both rich and poor nations, public resources for health care are inadequate to meet demand. Policy makers and health care providers must determine how to provide the most effective health care to citizens using the limited resources that are available. This chapter describes current and future challenges in the delivery of health care, and outlines the role that operations research (OR) models can play in helping to solve those problems. The chapter concludes with an overview of this book – its intended audience, the areas covered, and a description of the subsequent chapters. KEY WORDS Health care delivery, Health care planning HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES 3 1.1 WORLDWIDE HEALTH: THE PAST 50 YEARS Human health has improved significantly in the last 50 years. In 1950, global life expectancy was 46 years [1]. That figure rose to 61 years by 1980 and to 67 years by 1998 [2]. Much of these gains occurred in low- and middle-income countries, and were due in large part to improved nutrition and sanitation, medical innovations, and improvements in public health infrastructure.
Author : Larry G. Kessler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Mental health services
ISBN : MINN:319510028717587
Author : Larry G. Kessler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Mental health services
ISBN : OSU:32435024490203
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : UOM:39015010015066
Author : United States. Health Resources Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Health planning
ISBN : MINN:30000010717233