Operational Research for Emergency Planning in Healthcare: Volume 2 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Navonil Mustafee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254934403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-137-57328-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Collana: OR Essentials
• Disciplina: 330.0151
• Soggetti: Business mathematics; Management information systems; Production management; Operations research; Decision making; Leadership; Emergency medicine; Business Mathematics; Business Information Systems; Operations Management; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Business Strategy/Leadership; Emergency Medicine
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Operational Research for Healthcare Emergency Planning at a Strategic Level ; Part IV: OR for Assessment and Review of Emergency Services; 2 Emergency and On-Demand Healthcare: Modeling a Large Complex System; 3 Assessing the Impact of Systems Modeling in the Redesign of an Emergency Department; 4 Using Simulation to Assess Cardiac First-Responder Schemes Exhibiting Stochastic and Spatial Complexities; Part V: OR for Policy Formulation in Emergency Services; 5 The DH Accident and Emergency Department Model: A National Generic Model Used Locally; 6 Looking in the Wrong Place for Healthcare Improvements: A System Dynamics Study of an Accident and Emergency DepartmentPart VI: OR for Broader Engagement in Planning for Emergency Services; 7 System Dynamics Mapping of Acute Patient Flows; 8 Planning for Disaster: Developing a Multi-Agency Counselling Service; 9 Simulations for Epidemiology and Public Health Education; 10 Proposing a Systems Vision of Knowledge Management in Emergency Care; Part VII: Application of OR within the Wider Healthcare Context; 11 An Analysis of the Academic Literature on Simulation and Modeling in Health Care; 12 Applications of Simulation within the Healthcare Context13 System Dynamics Applications to European Healthcare Issues; 14 One Hundred Years of Operational Research in Health-UK 1948-2048; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a selection of studies that have applied Operational Research methods to improve emergency planning in healthcare, to include both A&E and public health emergencies like epidemic and natural disasters. The studies have delved into qualitative Operational Research like Problem Structuring, Critical Systems Thinking, Soft Systems Methodology, and Qualitative System Dynamics, and also quantitative techniques such as Monte Carlo Simulation, Discrete-event Simulation, and System Dynamics. These techniques have been applied for review and assessment of emergency services, for policy formulation and for facilitating broader public engagement in emergency preparedness and response. Furthermore, this book presents rigorous reviews on the applications of Operational Research in the wider healthcare context. This volume focuses mainly on emergency planning at the strategic level, whereas volume 1 focuses on planning at the operational level. The OR Essentials series presents a unique cross-section of high quality research work fundamental to understanding contemporary issues and research across a range of Operational Research (OR) topics. It brings together some of the best research papers from the highly respected journals of the Operational Research Society, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.