Applications of Operations Research to Health Care Delivery Systems - A Complete Review of Periodical Literature

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List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Health Status Indexes.- 3. Health Planning and Program Evaluation.- 4. Epidemic Control.- 5. Forecasting Demand.- 6. Facility Location.- 7. Ambulance Requirements and Deployment.- 8. Hospital Occupancy - Bed Complement.- 9. Hospital Occupancy - Elective Admissions.- 10. Special Facilities - Size and Scheduling.- 11. Staffing of Health Personal.- 12. Utilization of Auxiliary Health Professionals.- 13. Appointment Systems.- 14. Hospital Inventories.- 15. Blood Banking.- 16. Medical Management.- 17. Miscellaneous.- 18. Summary and Conclusions.- References.

Product details

• Authors: Brant E Fries, Brant E. Fries
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2012
• EAN: 9783540105596
• ISBN: 978-3-540-10559-6
• No. of pages: 108
• Weight: 200 g
• Illustrations: VI, 108 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics; Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics