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Hospital kanban system implementation: Valuating satisfaction of nursing personnel
Aguilar-Escobar, Víctor G.; Bourque, Sarah; … - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 21 (2015) 3, pp. 101-110
Literature on healthcare supply chain management has shown that the kanban system can provide significant benefits. However, very few benefits have been empirically demonstrated and the extent of each remains unknown. This study aims to measure nurses' satisfaction with kanban systems in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985017
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Hospital kanban system implementation : valuating satisfaction of nursing personnel
Aguilar-Escobar, Víctor G.; Bourque, Sarah; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 21 (2015) 3, pp. 101-110
Literature on healthcare supply chain management has shown that the kanban system can provide significant benefits. However, very few benefits have been empirically demonstrated and the extent of each remains unknown. This study aims to measure nurses’ satisfaction with kanban systems in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958847
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Interdependencies of Health, Education and Poverty: The Case of South Mediterranean Economies/Interdependencias de salud, educación y pobreza: el caso de las Economías Sur-Mediterr...
DRIOUCHI, AHMED; BOBOC, CRISTINA; ZOUAG, NADA - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 27 (2009) Agosto, pp. 523-544
This study is devoted to assessing the interdependencies between health, education and wealth at the aggregate regional … studies at micro and macroeconomic levels prove that there are causal relations between variables related to health, education … large interdependencies appear to be consistently exhibited by the data. Also, in the Granger sense of causality, health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479274
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Empirical Research in Healthcare Operations : Past Research, Present Understanding, and Future Opportunities
KC, Diwas Singh; Scholtes, Stefan; Terwiesch, Christian - 2019
identify several key areas of future research, including personalized medicine, value-based healthcare, and connected health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014106920
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Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry
Huckman, Robert S.; Clark, Jonathan R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919713
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Disease Management and the Application of Privacy Guidelines
Regan, Marybeth - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 10 (2002) 9, pp. 543-550
strengthening the legislation to protect privacy. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was … enacted to provide improved portability of health benefits and greater accountability in the area of healthcare fraud. The … response to requested improvements including greater privacy of health information. The legislation defined some parameters but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005448933
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Supporting Patient Care by Using Innovative Information Technology: A Case Study from Clinical Psychiatry
Ammenwerth, Elske; Ehlers, Frauke; Kutscha, Ulrike; … - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 10 (2002) 8, pp. 479-487
Healthcare institutions, such as hospitals, are made up of highly distributed and complex organizational structures and processes. As such there is an increasingly large number of information interfaces between various involved healthcare professionals, making efficient organization of patient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590159
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Patients Diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Medical Record Validation of a Claims-Based Identification Algorithm
Legorreta, Antonio P.; Ricci, Jean-Francois; Markowitz, Mike - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 10 (2002) 11, pp. 715-722
adults aged 18 years or older who were enrolled in a large health maintenance organization in California, USA, during the …. Conclusions: Claims databases provide an efficient and effective tool for conducting health services research on large patient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590195
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Profit-oriented scheduling of resource-constrained projects with flexible capacity constraints
Schnabel, André; Kellenbrink, Carolin; Helber, Stefan - 2017
We consider a novel generalization of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). Unlike many established approaches for the RCPSP that aim to minimize the makespan of the project for given static capacity constraints, we consider the important real-life aspect that capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655297
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Focused Management in a Court System : Doing More with the Existing Resources
Boaz, Ronen; Lieber, Zvi; Bar-Niv (Burnovski), Moshe - 2010
As in many countries, the court system in Israel suffers from long lead time, missing due date performance, and poor service quality. This paper shows that putting into practice the Focused Management techniques and philosophies can significantly improve the judicial system. It will achieve much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198650