Health Care Systems Engineering for Scientists and Practitioners: HCSE, Lyon, France, May 2015 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Book 169)

In this volume, scientists and practitioners write about new methods and technologies for improving the operation of health care organizations. Statistical analyses play an important role in these methods with the implications of simulation and modeling applied to the future of health care. Papers are based on work presented at the Second International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering (HCSE2015) in Lyon, France. The conference was a rare opportunity for scientists and practitioners to share work directly with each other. Each resulting paper received a double blind review. Paper topics include: hospital drug logistics, emergency care, simulation in patient care, and models for home care services. Discusses statistical analysis and operations management for health care delivery systems based on real case studies Papers in this volume received a double blind review Brings together the work of scientists, practitioners, and clinicians to unite research and practice in the future of these systems Topics include: hospital drug logistics, emergency care, modeling and simulation in patient care and healthcare organizations and in home care services Front Matter....Pages i-xii Systems Approach for Preventing Falls in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Using Sensing Devices Surrounding the Patient’s Bed....Pages 1-11 A Multi-objective Patient Admission Planning Improving Resources Utilisation Under Bed Capacity Constraints....Pages 13-24 Multi-criteria Decision Making Approaches to Prioritize Surgical Patients....Pages 25-34 Bed Managers: The Patient’s Personal Assistant....Pages 35-40 An Optimization Model for Sequence Dependent Parallel Operating Room Scheduling....Pages 41-51 A Mean-Field Analysis for the Two-Tiered Healthcare Network Through Nonlinear Markov Processes....Pages 53-64 Scheduling Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examinations: An Empirical Analysis....Pages 65-77 A Managerial Use of the Volume-Outcome Association for Hospital Planning....Pages 79-89 A Discrete Event Simulation Model for the Admission of Patients to a Home Care Rehabilitation Service....Pages 91-100 Ambulance Location Problem with Stochastic Call Arrivals Under Nearest Available Dispatching Policy....Pages 101-110 Approach to Clustering Clinical Departments....Pages 111-120 Management of Blood Donation System: Literature Review and Research Perspectives....Pages 121-132 Staffing Ratio Analysis in Primary Care Redesign: A Simulation Approach....Pages 133-144 Disease Prevention and Control Plans: State of the Art and Future Research Guideline....Pages 145-154 A Goal-Programming Approach to the Master Surgical Scheduling Problem....Pages 155-166 How Do Missing Patients Aggravate Emergency Department Overcrowding? A Real Case and a Simulation Study....Pages 167-177 System Dynamics Modelling of Emergent and Elective Patient Flows....Pages 179-191 Markov Decision Process Model for Patient Admission Decision at an Emergency Department in Disasters....Pages 193-202 Crisis Management Plan: Preventive Measures and Lessons Learned from a Major Computer System Failure....Pages 203-214