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Author Story, Pierce.

Title Dynamic capacity management for healthcare : advanced methods and tools for optimization / Pierce Story
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 200 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Variability : killer of capacity -- 3. Interdependencies -- 4. DCAMM introduction -- 5. Predictive analytics -- 6. Demand components : the emergency department -- 7. Surgical services and DCAMM analytics -- 8. Up-down-up : creating a systems view from a component perspective -- 9. Capacity patterns and analytics for DCAMM -- 10. Dynamic resources allocations, dynamic standardization, and workload analytics -- 11. A word on mandated nurse-patient ratios -- 12. Outlier management and system balance
Summary "Presenting new approaches, tools, and perspectives, this book facilitates the effective management of the complexities and "dynamism" unique to health care operations. It introduces healthcare managers and professionals to state-of-the-art concepts designed to improve both process- and dynamic systems-focused performance and develop appropriately dynamic process-level solutions to complex systems level issues. Employing common methodologies such as Lean, Sigma Six, and CQI, the "Dynamic Capacity Management" approach addresses the analysis and improvement of hospital- and department-wide capacity, patient flow, resource allocation, and performance optimization"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Hospitals -- Administration.
Organizational change.
Hospital Administration -- methods
Efficiency, Organizational
Health Services Needs and Demand -- organization & administration
Hospital Bed Capacity
Organizational Innovation
Quality of Health Care -- organization & administration
Hospital Administration
MEDICAL -- Hospital Administration & Care.
Organizational change
Hospitals -- Administration
SUBJECT United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781439819760
1439819769