Overview

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.

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Author:   Randolph Hall
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2006
Volume:   91
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9781441941435

ISBN 10:   1441941436
Pages:   466
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781461495116
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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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.

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From the reviews: A comprehensive multiauthored manual that outlines the techniques and methods that can be applied to the health care system to improve patient flow, reduce patient delays, and improve overall health care. ... Many examples are illustrated to enhance learning. ... Recommended Readership: Physicians involved with the management of the practice or in leadership roles, office and hospital administrators or managers, and quality improvement champions. (Mark A. Nyman, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Vol. 82 (3), March, 2007) This book, which contains 15 papers on the operational aspects of health-care delivery, was written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, and operations research professionals ! . Those of us who are deeply interested in the application of management principles and technologies to health-care delivery will be delighted to receive this book. ! it will also serve to alert health administrators worldwide that a science has grown up to solve the operational problems in health-care delivery, and that they should be using it in their organizations. (Jamshed A. Modi, Interfaces, Vol. 37 (5), 2007)

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