Optimizing emergency department throughput : operations management solutions for health care decision makers /: operations management solutions for health care decision makers. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] John M. Shiver, David Eitel.
• Other Names: Shiver, John M; Eitel, David
• Contents: Fixing the front end : why would an emergency department medical director or nursing supervisor wish to install Emergency Severity Index (ESI) triage? / Dave Eitel and Tom Falvo -- Process mapping and work flow diagramming in health care / Sueanne McKniff -- What is lean six sigma? : an introduction to lean and six sigma for the health care novice / Dave Eitel -- Using lean six sigma to accelerate emergency department results / Greg Butler, Chip Caldwell, and Shannon Elswick -- Queuing models for hospital emergency departments / Yasar A. Ozcan -- The nursing perspective and role in planning a simulation modeling project : historical, experiential, and future applications of complex adaptive systems thinking / Susan O'Hara -- The physiology of service capacity / Pierce Story and Dave Eitel -- The door-to-doc toolkit : planning emergency department capacity for delivering safe care / Twila L. Burdick ... [et al.] -- Forecasting the demand for emergency department services / Murray J. Côte ... [et al.] -- Improving fairness in nurse scheduling : introducing a new approach using auctions and integer programming optimization / Melanie L. DeGrano -- Establishing engineered nurse staffing requirements in the emergency department / Frank Overfelt -- Patient safety organizations : a new paradigm in quality management and communication systems for healthcare / Douglas B. Dotan -- Alternative emergency care settings / James Lifton.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Productivity Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 362.11068; Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Management; Emergency Service, Hospital -- organization & administration; Efficiency, Organizational; Models, Organizational; Quality Assurance, Health Care
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420084979; 1420084976
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