Journal•ISSN: 0953-8534
Health services management
About: Health services management is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Health care & Service (business). It has an ISSN identifier of 0953-8534. Over the lifetime, 122 publications have been published receiving 432 citations.
Topics: Health care, Service (business), MEDLINE, Audit, White paper
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TL;DR: Lifespan Healthcare's personal development plan for managers is described, and some of the benefits it has brought the organisation are reported on.
Abstract: Since the introduction of general management into the NHS in 1985, greater emphasis has been placed on managing the service through clearly defined objectives. Jill Sandford and Christine Rollin describe Lifespan Healthcare's personal development plan for managers, and report on some of the benefits it has brought the organisation.
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TL;DR: Electrical Safety U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration Hospital eTool – HealthCare Wide Hazards Module: Electrical Hazards.
Abstract: Electrical Safety U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Hospital eTool – HealthCare Wide Hazards Module: Electrical Hazards. http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/hospital/hazards/electrical/electrical.html Medical Device Safety U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Medical Device Safety. http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/default.htm
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TL;DR: Numerical results are compared and illustrate that the branch-and-price algorithm outperforms the integer program approach and that a large decomposition unit improves the solution both on solution quality and on computational speed.
Abstract: This paper describes a methodology for the case mix problem at the strategic level in the health care sector. Aiming to maximize hospital profits under the given resource capacity, a mathematical model is developed to produce an optimal case mix pattern and a corresponding resource allocation scheme. Two exact methods, integer linear programming and branch-and-price, are deployed to solve the constructed model. For the branch-and-price approach, new formulations based on various decomposition units, namely wards and surgeon groups, are proposed and can be solved efficiently with branch-and-price algorithms. Numerical results are compared and illustrate that the branch-and-price algorithm outperforms the integer program approach and that a large decomposition unit improves the solution both on solution quality and on computational speed.
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