NDLI: An optimal decision making model for supporting week hospital management

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Author	Guido, Rosita Conforti, Maria Letizia Guerriero, Francesca Conforti, Domenico Cerinic, Marco Matucci
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Week Hospital is an innovative inpatient health care organization and management, by which hospital stay services are planned in advance and delivered on week-time basis to elective patients. In this context, a strategic decision is the optimal clinical management of patients, and, in particular, devising efficient and effective admission and scheduling procedures, by tackling different requirements such as beds’ availability, diagnostic resources, and treatment capabilities. The main aim is to maximize the patient flow, by ensuring the delivery of all clinical services during the week. In this paper, the optimal management of Week Hospital patients is considered. We have developed and validated an innovative integer programming model, based on clinical resources allocation and beds utilization. In particular, the model aims at scheduling Week Hospital patients’ admission/discharge, possibly reducing the length of stay on the basis of an available timetable of clinical services. The performance of the model has been evaluated, in terms of efficiency and robustness, by considering real data coming from a Week Hospital Rheumatology Division. The experimental results have been satisfactory and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Ending Page	88
Page Count	15
Starting Page	74
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13869620
e-ISSN	15729389
Journal	Health Care Management Science
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	14
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-11-18
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Health Administration Business/Management Science Health Informatics Decision making problem Scheduling theory, deterministic Management/Business for Professionals Integer programming Patient scheduling Operations Research/Decision Theory Health care services Week hospital Econometrics Mathematical programming
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Professions Medicine

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