Health Care Systems Engineering for Scientists and Practitioners

Chapter 1 Systems Approach for Preventing Falls in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Using Sensing Devices Surrounding the Patient’s Bed

Chapter 2 A Multi-objective Patient Admission Planning Improving Resources Utilisation Under Bed Capacity Constraints

Chapter 3 Multi-criteria Decision Making Approaches to Prioritize Surgical Patients

Chapter 4 Bed Managers: The Patient’s Personal Assistant

Chapter 5 An Optimization Model for Sequence Dependent Parallel Operating Room Scheduling

Chapter 6 A Mean-Field Analysis for the Two-Tiered Healthcare Network Through Nonlinear Markov Processes

Chapter 7 Scheduling Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examinations: An Empirical Analysis

Chapter 8 A Managerial Use of the Volume-Outcome Association for Hospital Planning

Chapter 9 A Discrete Event Simulation Model for the Admission of Patients to a Home Care Rehabilitation Service

Chapter 10 Ambulance Location Problem with Stochastic Call Arrivals Under Nearest Available Dispatching Policy

Chapter 11 Approach to Clustering Clinical Departments

Chapter 12 Management of Blood Donation System: Literature Review and Research Perspectives

Chapter 13 Staffing Ratio Analysis in Primary Care Redesign: A Simulation Approach

Chapter 14 Disease Prevention and Control Plans: State of the Art and Future Research Guideline

Chapter 15 A Goal-Programming Approach to the Master Surgical Scheduling Problem

Chapter 16 How Do Missing Patients Aggravate Emergency Department Overcrowding? A Real Case and a Simulation Study

Chapter 17 System Dynamics Modelling of Emergent and Elective Patient Flows

Chapter 18 Markov Decision Process Model for Patient Admission Decision at an Emergency Department in Disasters

Chapter 19 Crisis Management Plan: Preventive Measures and Lessons Learned from a Major Computer System Failure

Chapter 20 Erratum to: A Mean-Field Analysis for the Two-Tiered Healthcare Network Through Nonlinear Markov Processes