Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery

Randolph Hall (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

466 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-4143-5 (ISBN)

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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 aspect is ensuring that services are closely synchronized with patterns of patient demand. Still another aspect is ensuring that ancillary services, such as housekeeping and transportation, are fully coordinate with direct patient care. It is the first book treatment to have reduction in patient delay as its sole focus, and therefore, provides the foundation by which hospitals can implement change. Reflecting the highly interdisciplinary and practitioner nature of this book, the chapters have been written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, system engineers and geographers, and thus, these perspectives provide the comprehensive view needed to address the problem of patient delay.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	International Series in Operations Research Management Science ; 91
Zusatzinfo	91 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 466 p. 91 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	1-4419-4143-6 / 1441941436
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-4143-5 / 9781441941435
Zustand	Neuware