Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hall, Randolph W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 91
• Subjects: Medicine.; Organization.; Planning.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Health administration.; Internal medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Administration.; Internal Medicine.; Emergency Services.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing the delays experienced by patients. One aspect of this goal is to improve the flow of patients, so that they do not experience unnecessary waits as they flow through a healthcare system. Another...

Table of Contents:

• 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 Improvements
• Managing a Patient Flow Improvement Project.