Modeling and Simulation Analyses of Healthcare Delivery Operations for Inter-Hospital Patient Transfers

Chialin Chen and Samson X. Zhao
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Chialin Chen: Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Samson X. Zhao: Oliver Wyman Financial Services, Toronto, Canada

International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS), 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 76-94

Abstract: Inter-hospital transfers of patients for different elements of care have been increasingly used as a common strategy for providing quality healthcares through sharing limited resources worldwide. In this paper, the authors study the problem of healthcare delivery operations for inter-hospital patient transfers motivated by a real-world case within the South East Local Health Integration Network of Ontario. The authors use a directed graph to develop a general model for obtaining the solution that minimizes the overall transportation time while satisfying all the inter-hospital transfer requests with identical or different start and end points. The authors also perform simulation analyses to study the fleet sizing problem through evaluating different service performances with different fleet sizes. A number of implementation issues for managing inter-hospital patient transfer services are also discussed.

Date: 2014
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