Contributing authors.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Modeling patient flows through the healthcare system.- Hospitals and clinical facilities, processes and design for patient flow.- Access to surgery and medical consequences of delays.- Breakthrough demand-capacity management strategies to improve hospital flow, safety, and satisfaction.- Managing patient appointments in primary care.- Waiting lists for surgery.- Personnel staffing and scheduling.- Discrete-event simulation of health care systems.- Forecasting demand for regional healthcare.- Queueing analysis in healthcare.- Rapid distribution of medical supplies.- Using a diagnostic to focus hospital flow improvement strategies.- Continuum of care program.- A logistics approach for hospital process improvement.- Managing a patient flow improvement project.- Biographies.- Index.
EAN/ISBN : 9780387336367
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin
Discussed keywords: Gesundheitswesen
Format: ePub/PDF