EVALUATION OF PRIORITY STRATEGIES FOR HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS

S. Gallivan
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S. Gallivan: Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, University College, London, UK

Chapter 14 in Monitoring, Evaluating, Planning Health Services, 1999, pp 152-161 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractIn the past, Operational Research methods have been successfully applied to road traffic control problems associated with granting priority to public transport. Such methods translate well into the evaluation of prioritising hospital admissions from a waiting list. A modelling method used by the author in the context of traffic engineering has been reformulated so that it can be used to evaluate potential hospital admission policies that take account of priority ratings. The method can be used to compare the consequences of different strategies for patient admission in terms of features such as: mean waiting time for different patient priority groups, maximum waiting times and overall patient throughput.

Keywords: Healthcare; Management; Quality; Planning; Emergency Services; Evaluation; Hospital Systems; Monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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