Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery

1. Modeling Patient Flows Through the Healthcare System
Randolph Hall, David Belson, Pavan Murali, Maged Dessouky

2. Hospitals and Clinical Facilities, Processes and Design for Patient Flow
Michael Williams

3. Access to Surgery and Medical Consequences of Delays
Boris Sobolev, Adrian Levy, Lisa Kuramoto

4. Breakthrough Demand-Capacity Management Strategies to Improve Hospital Flow, Safety, and Satisfaction
Linda Kosnik

5. Managing Patient Appointments in Primary Care
Sergei Savin

6. Waiting Lists for Surgery
Emilio Cerdá, Laura Pablos, Maria V. Rodriguez

7. Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
Michael Warner

8. Discrete-Event Simulation of Health Care Systems
Sheldon H. Jacobson, Shane N. Hall, James R. Swisher

9. Forecasting Demand for Regional Healthcare
Peter Congdon

10. Queueing Analysis in Healthcare
Linda Green

11. Rapid Distribution of Medical Supplies
Maged Dessouky, Fernando Ordóñez, Hongzhong Jia, Zhihong Shen

12. Using a Diagnostic to Focus Hospital flow Improvement Strategies
Roger Resar

13. Continuum of Care Program
Mark Lindsay

14. A Logistics Approach for Hospital Process Improvements
Jan Vissers

15. Managing a Patient Flow Improvement Project
David Belson

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Health Informatics, Internal Medicine, Emergency Services, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Organization/Planning, Medicine/Public Health, general