Healthcare, being a complex and huge system, suffers from low quality of care delivered to arriving patients. The … quality of care depends on the patient's condition and the availability of hospital's resources. Therefore, many authors have … performance. In healthcare, different departments interact with each other in order to deliver a certain service to arriving …

This article describes how healthcare faces many challenges. Among them is the inability of patients to seek and … ‘limit' patients' ability to access affordable and quality healthcare. Discourse in prior research has indicated that the use … receive treatment based on their preferences. Patients characteristically pursue solutions to their medical problems that suit …

for Medicare recipients. The cost indicator includes Medicare charges; the quality of care indicators include hospital … patients in higher-priced facilities do not necessarily receive better quality of care. Moreover, there are regional cost … procedures could result in substantial savings in healthcare spending. They offer healthcare agencies and hospitals actionable …

permanent measurement to act as an indicator of that performance. This article concerns the application of MC methods in order …

challenges to emergency department (ED) is the control of the urgent patients and the non-urgent patients. The urgent patient … occur frequently and can incur significant delays for the non-urgent patients. Therefore, a non-urgent patient needs to …

vehicles bringing patients to hospital. In developed countries, Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are prevalent. These … emergency vehicles respond late and when they reach the hospital, precious time is lost in understanding the patient trauma … victims in time, which can happen when the emergency wing of a hospital has advance information about the trauma before the …