Operations Management Solutions for Health Care Decision Makers
E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4200-8497-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Recognizing that the ideal in health care is presently beyond our immediate grasp, this book instead focuses on providing health care leaders with the tools they can employ to optimize the performance of EDs and thereby improve service to patients, employees, and communities.
Written by 20 of the most progressive and successful health care reformers in the country, the approaches described can be utilized to quantify improvements, enhance predictability of workflow, and improve staff scheduling. The data derived using these techniques can serve as powerful evidence in support of change. While a common discussion among ED professionals is the perception that many patients are not really emergency patients and could be treated in another setting at another time, that argument is not germane until we as a nation elect to reform the way we chose to deliver healthcare to the underserviced.
In the meantime this book provides invalauable information to help individual hospitals to retool their ED’s. It offers new approaches that think outside of the box for all stakeholders. It also provides the statistical evidence that administrators need to make their cases for changes and added resources. It will help you forecast the demand for services and give your center an approach that will allow the ED to become a source of income rather than one that continues to hemorrhage needed limited health care funding.
Zielgruppe
The primary audience for this book include senior level manager and administrators who have responsibility of the operation of a hospital and its emergency department, including (but not limited to) COO, CFO and other financial directors and managers, directors and managers of admissions and patient financial services, directors and managers in patient safety and quality,…
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Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: Description of Current Status of Emergency Departments and Hospitals
Fixing the Front End: Why Would an Emergency Department Medical Director or Nursing Supervisor Wish to Install Emergency Severity Index (ESI) Triage? D. Eitel and T. Falvo
Process Mapping and Workflow Diagramming in Health Care, S. McKniff
What is Lean Six Sigma? An Introduction to Lean and Six Sigma for the Health Care Novice, D. Eitel
Using Lean-Six Sigma to Accelerate Emergency Department Results, G. Butler, C. Caldwell, and S. Elswick
Queuing Models for Hospital Emergency Departments, Y.A. Ozcan
The Nursing Perspective and Role in Planning a Simulation Modeling Project: Historical, Experiential, and Future Applications of Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking; with an Emergency Department Case Study, S. O’Hara
The Physiology of Service Capacity, P. Story and D. Eitel
The Door-to-Doc Toolkit: Planning Emergency Department Capacity for Delivering Safe Care, T.L. Burdick, J.K. Cochran, R. Andrews, M.E. Bucco, J.R. Broyles, and K.T. Roche
Forecasting the Demand for Emergency Department Services, M.J. Côté, E. Akçali, and D. Eitel
Improving Fairness in Nurse Scheduling: Introducing a New Approach Using Auctions and Integer Programming Optimization, M.L. DeGrano
Establishing Engineered Nurse Staffing Requirements in the Emergency Department, F. Overfelt
Patient Safety Organizations: A New Paradigm in Quality Management and Communication Systems in Health Care, D.B. Dotan
Alternative Emergency Care Settings, J. Lifton
Appendix A: Case Study—Surviving and Thriving in Emergency Department Chaos
Appendix B
About the Editors
About the Contributors
