An integrated algorithm for performance optimization of neurosurgical ICUs

Azadeh, A.; Tohidi, Hossein; Zarrin, Mansour; Pashapour, Shima; Moghaddam, Mohsen

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2015.08.042

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“…The advantages of this approach are clearly understood. This approach is a powerful decision support tool for calculating efficiency that has the appropriate performance than the other assessment tools (Azadeh et al, 2013;Azadeh et al, 2016). This method has been used in several researches as an evaluator and analyzer tool.…”

Section: Data Envelopment Analysis (Dea)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimization of healthcare supply chain in context of macro-ergonomics factors by a unique mathematical programming approach

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This study presents an integrated approach for analyzing the impact of macro-ergonomics factors in healthcare supply chain (HCSC) by data envelopment analysis (DEA). The case of this study is the supply chain (SC) of a real hospital. Thus, healthcare standards and macro-ergonomics factors are considered to be modeled by the mathematical programming approach. Over 28 subsidiary SC divisions with parallel missions and objectives are evaluated by analyzing inputs and outputs through DEA. Each division in this HCSC is considered as decision making unit (DMU). This approach can analyze the impact of macro-ergonomics factors on supply chain management (SCM) in healthcare sector. Also, this method ranks the relevant performance efficiencies of each HCSC. In this study by using proposed method, the most effective macro-ergonomics factor on HCSC is identified as "teamwork" issue. Also, this study would help managers to identify the areas of weaknesses in their SCM system and set improvement target plan for the related SCM system in healthcare industry. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study for macro-ergonomics optimization of HCSC.

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Section: Data Envelopment Analysis (Dea)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimization of healthcare supply chain in context of macro-ergonomics factors by a unique mathematical programming approach

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“…Urgent care planning and scheduling additional process steps may be difficult. However, to gain insights into the interaction between hospital departments it may be sufficient to only include key components (e.g., [17,147,174]). …”

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“…Almost all papers that study both wards and operating theater primarily focus on modeling of the ORs. A different focus is used by [17], who model a neurosurgical ICU, and include the OR in their simulation model. They evaluate changes in available ORs, as well as staff and resources and its effect on the ICU, and find the combination of ORs and ICU beds that performs best with regards to waiting time, postponement, and medical criteria such as mortality rates.…”

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“…Ward planning studies mostly optimize the allocation of beds to various patient types (e.g., reserve beds for non-electives and electives), as well as dimensioning for different medical specialties [2,17,18,22,50,83,90,109,125,147,150,151,171]. Complete hospital bed planning is also modeled [24,109,151,242], and when wards are evaluated, elective patients may also be included [24,103,125,146].…”

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“…Trade-offs are sought between the utilization of wards and beds, and the blocking probability of a ward (i.e., the probability a patient can not be admitted). Both more specialized wards such as PACUs [18,61,226] and medium and intensive care units (ICU) [2,17,18,125,169] are considered, as well as regular wards [18,147]. When wards are included, the recovery of patients after surgery Ambulatory [29,33,90,157,174] [ 33,90,157,260] is modeled alongside the OR, and patients must be scheduled such that not only an OR is available, but also a post surgery bed.…”

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An integrated algorithm for performance optimization of neurosurgical ICUs

Cited by 15 publications

References 45 publications

Optimization of healthcare supply chain in context of macro-ergonomics factors by a unique mathematical programming approach

Optimization of healthcare supply chain in context of macro-ergonomics factors by a unique mathematical programming approach

Managing urgent care in hospitals

Health care quality in nonparametric efficiency studies: a review

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