Hospital Admission Systems: Their Evaluation and Management
The paper presents a holistic analysis of hospital management admission systems. It outlines control strategies which will facilitate a system's effectiveness for various organizational attributes. In particular, attention is focused on bed occupancy levels and on the stability of flows into the hospital as interacting control variables. The paper surveys the major available mathematical models and evaluates their use vs. the use of simulation. It emphasizes the potential use of an iterative assignment model which explicitly considers the alternative profiles for preferences for service attributes held by the various participants in the admission system. To reconcile conflicting objectives of these participants the DELPHI and the Multi-attribute Reduction methods are proposed.
Year of publication: |
1973
|
---|---|
Authors: | Milsum, John H. ; Turban, Efraim ; Vertinsky, Ilan |
Published in: |
Management Science. - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS, ISSN 0025-1909. - Vol. 19.1973, 6, p. 646-666
|
Publisher: |
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences - INFORMS |
Saved in:
Online Resource
Saved in favorites
Similar items by person
-
Hospital admission systems : their evaluation and management
Milsum, John H., (1973)
-
The hierarchical basis for general living systems
Milsum, John H., (1972)
-
Decision support and expert systems : managerial perspectives
Turban, Efraim, (1988)
- More ...