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Dynamic capacity management for healthcare advanced methods and tools for optimization / Pierce Story.

By: Story, Pierce.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2011General Notes: EBSCO PDA Program.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 200 p.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781439819760 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Hospitals -- Administration | Hospital size | Medical care -- Utilization | Medical care -- Quality controlGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 362.11068 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Variability : killer of capacity -- 3. Interdependencies -- 4. DCAMM introduction -- 5. Predictive analytics -- 6. Demand components : the emergency department -- 7. Surgical services and DCAMM analytics -- 8. Up-down-up : creating a systems view from a component perspective -- 9. Capacity patterns and analytics for DCAMM -- 10. Dynamic resources allocations, dynamic standardization, and workload analytics -- 11. A word on mandated nurse-patient ratios -- 12. Outlier management and system balance.
Summary: "Presenting new approaches, tools, and perspectives, this book facilitates the effective management of the complexities and "dynamism" unique to health care operations. It introduces healthcare managers and professionals to state-of-the-art concepts designed to improve both process- and dynamic systems-focused performance and develop appropriately dynamic process-level solutions to complex systems level issues. Employing common methodologies such as Lean, Sigma Six, and CQI, the "Dynamic Capacity Management" approach addresses the analysis and improvement of hospital- and department-wide capacity, patient flow, resource allocation, and performance optimization"--Provided by publisher.
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1. Introduction -- 2. Variability : killer of capacity -- 3. Interdependencies -- 4. DCAMM introduction -- 5. Predictive analytics -- 6. Demand components : the emergency department -- 7. Surgical services and DCAMM analytics -- 8. Up-down-up : creating a systems view from a component perspective -- 9. Capacity patterns and analytics for DCAMM -- 10. Dynamic resources allocations, dynamic standardization, and workload analytics -- 11. A word on mandated nurse-patient ratios -- 12. Outlier management and system balance.

"Presenting new approaches, tools, and perspectives, this book facilitates the effective management of the complexities and "dynamism" unique to health care operations. It introduces healthcare managers and professionals to state-of-the-art concepts designed to improve both process- and dynamic systems-focused performance and develop appropriately dynamic process-level solutions to complex systems level issues. Employing common methodologies such as Lean, Sigma Six, and CQI, the "Dynamic Capacity Management" approach addresses the analysis and improvement of hospital- and department-wide capacity, patient flow, resource allocation, and performance optimization"--Provided by publisher.

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