Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery
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This book is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing the delays experienced by patients. One aspect of this goal is to improve the flow of patients, so that they do not experience unnecessary waits as they flow through a healthcare system. It is the first book treatment to have reduction in patient delay as its sole focus, and therefore it provides the foundation by which hospitals can implement change. Reflecting the highly interdisciplinary nature of this book, the chapters have been written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, system engineers and geographers. These perspectives provide the comprehensive view needed to address the problem of patient delay.
Examines health care as an integrated system and provides a whole range of "hands-on" methods for developing process models, and using these models to identify and remove 'bottleneck' problems, while facilitating rapid health care delivery response systems A chapter-by-chapter guide to motivate change in Health Care Systems around the world to prioritize the reduction of delays and implement changes that will dramatically improve health care Illustrates that radical changes in the management of patient flow and patient delay are not only possible, they are essential to ensuring that advances in medical practice keep pace with advances in medical science Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Randolph Hall
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"A comprehensive multiauthored manual that outlines the techniques and methods that can be applied to the health care system to improve patient flow, reduce patient delays, and improve overall health care. ... Many examples are illustrated to enhance learning. ... Recommended Readership: Physicians involved with the management of the practice or in leadership roles, office and hospital administrators or managers, and quality improvement champions." (Mark A. Nyman, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Vol. 82 (3), March, 2007)
"This book, which contains 15 papers on the operational aspects of health-care delivery, was written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, and operations research professionals … . Those of us who are deeply interested in the application of management principles and technologies to health-care delivery will be delighted to receive this book. … it will also serve to alert health administrators worldwide that a science has grown up to solve the operational problems in health-care delivery, and that they should be using it in their organizations." (Jamshed A. Modi, Interfaces, Vol. 37 (5), 2007)
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