[HTML][HTML] A review of emergency and disaster management in the process of healthcare operation management for improving hospital surgical intake capacity

M Heydari, KK Lai, Y Fan, X Li - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
To perform diagnosis and treatment, health systems, hospitals, and other patient care
facilities require a wide range of supplies, from masks and gloves to catheters and implants …

Operations research/management contributions to emergency department patient flow optimization: Review and research prospects

S Saghafian, G Austin, SJ Traub - IIE Transactions on Healthcare …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, Operations Research/Management (OR/OM) has had a significant impact on
improving the performance of hospital Emergency Departments (EDs). This includes …

On patient flow in hospitals: A data-based queueing-science perspective

M Armony, S Israelit, A Mandelbaum… - Stochastic …, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
Hospitals are complex systems with essential societal benefits and huge mounting costs.
These costs are exacerbated by inefficiencies in hospital processes, which are often …

ICU admission control: An empirical study of capacity allocation and its implication for patient outcomes

SH Kim, CW Chan, M Olivares… - Management …, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
This work examines the process of admission to a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU). ICUs
currently lack systematic admission criteria, largely because the impact of ICU admission on …

OM forum—Healthcare operations management: A snapshot of emerging research

T Dai, S Tayur - Manufacturing & service operations …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely
healthcare topics (eg, organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) …

Models and insights for hospital inpatient operations: Time-dependent ED boarding time

P Shi, MC Chou, JG Dai, D Ding… - Management …, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
One key factor contributing to emergency department (ED) overcrowding is prolonged
waiting time for admission to inpatient wards, also known as ED boarding time. To gain …

A Review of the Healthcare-Management (Modeling) Literature Published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

P Keskinocak, N Savva - Manufacturing & Service …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Healthcare systems throughout the world are under pressure to widen access, improve
efficiency and quality of care, and reduce inequity. Achieving these conflicting goals requires …

Patient streaming as a mechanism for improving responsiveness in emergency departments

S Saghafian, WJ Hopp, MP Van Oyen… - Operations …, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
Crisis-level overcrowding conditions in emergency departments (EDs) have led hospitals to
seek out new patient-flow designs to improve both responsiveness and safety. One …

Review of modeling approaches for emergency department patient flow and crowding research

JL Wiler, RT Griffey, T Olsen - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18: 1371–1379© 2011 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Emergency department (ED) crowding is an …

Optimizing intensive care unit discharge decisions with patient readmissions

CW Chan, VF Farias, N Bambos… - Operations …, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
This work examines the impact of discharge decisions under uncertainty in a capacity-
constrained high-risk setting: the intensive care unit (ICU). New arrivals to an ICU are …