Abstract Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been widely used in modelling health-care
systems for many years and a simple citation analysis shows that the number of papers …

This paper describes the use of operational research techniques to analyze the wait list for
the Division of General Surgery at the Capital District Health Authority in Halifax, Nova …

High surgical bed occupancy levels often result in heightened staff stress, frequent surgical
cancellations, and long surgical wait times. This congestion is in part attributable to surgical …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to carry out the business process re‐engineering
(BPR) of a surgical ward in a hospital in order to improve the efficiency of the ward …

The paper addresses the question in the title via a survey of experienced healthcare
modellers and an extensive literature review. It has two objectives. 1. To compare the …

Purpose In order to provide access to care in a timely manner, it is necessary to effectively
manage the allocation of limited resources. such as beds. Bed management is a key to the …

Simulation, as it is typically taught, is a rather mechanical process. Students are taught to
follow a recipe: analyze a system, design a model, convert the model to computer code …

Some health care information systems (HCIS) do succeed, but the majority are likely to fail in
some way. To explain why this happens, and how failure rates may be reduced, the chapter …

This text summarizes the PhD dissertation that was defended by the author in January 2009
under the supervision of Erik Demeulemeester at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven …

Dans cette thèse, nous étudions la gestion des blocs opératoires, et plus particulièrement la
planification et l'ordonnancement de ces blocs. Le choix d'études de ce secteur hospitalier …