Advanced Decision Making Methods Applied to Health Care

The most difficult part of making decisions in the health care field on all levels (national, regional, institutional, patient) is linked to the very complexity of the system itself, to the intrinsic uncertainty involved and its dynamic nature. This requires not only the ability to analyze and inter...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Tànfani, Elena (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Testi, Angela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Σειρά:International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 173
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a Workforce Management based on forecasted demand -- Operating rooms scheduling under uncertainty -- Idealised design and modelling of alternatives to hospital care -- A coordination model for enhancing research on rare diseases -- Integrating simulation and risk-based sensitivity analysis methods in hospital emergency department design -- Technical and scale efficiencies of Catholic hospitals: Does a system value of stewardship matter?- Optimal allocation of urban nuclei to hospital birth centres in a geographical region -- The nurse-to-patient assigment problem in Home Care services -- An analysis of the financial statements of Italian health care providers through correlation-based networks -- Prioritizing health care interventions: A multicriteria resource allocation model to inform the choice of community care programmes -- Using data envelopment analysis for formative evaluation of radiotherapy services: An exploratory study -- A simulation-based decision support tool to analyze clinical pathways in hospital -- Patient mix optimisation for inpatient planning with multiple resources. 
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