Operational research for emergency planning in healthcare. Volume 2 /

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Imprint:Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
©2016
Description:1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:OR essentials
OR essentials series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11252478
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Other authors / contributors:Mustafee, Navonil, editor.
ISBN:9781137573285
1137573287
9781349568116
9781137573261
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 29, 2016).
Summary:Provides an overview of how Operational Research can be used for emergency planning in healthcare. Volume 1 focuses on the operational level and Volume 2 focuses on the strategic level.
Other form:Print version: Operational research for emergency planning in healthcare. Volume 2. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 9781137573261
Standard no.:10.1007/978-1-137-57328-5
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Operational Research for Healthcare Emergency Planning at a Strategic Level ; Part IV: OR for Assessment and Review of Emergency Services; 2 Emergency and On-Demand Healthcare: Modeling a Large Complex System; 3 Assessing the Impact of Systems Modeling in the Redesign of an Emergency Department; 4 Using Simulation to Assess Cardiac First-Responder Schemes Exhibiting Stochastic and Spatial Complexities; Part V: OR for Policy Formulation in Emergency Services; 5 The DH Accident and Emergency Department Model: A National Generic Model Used Locally.
  • 6 Looking in the Wrong Place for Healthcare Improvements: A System Dynamics Study of an Accident and Emergency DepartmentPart VI: OR for Broader Engagement in Planning for Emergency Services; 7 System Dynamics Mapping of Acute Patient Flows; 8 Planning for Disaster: Developing a Multi-Agency Counselling Service; 9 Simulations for Epidemiology and Public Health Education; 10 Proposing a Systems Vision of Knowledge Management in Emergency Care; Part VII: Application of OR within the Wider Healthcare Context; 11 An Analysis of the Academic Literature on Simulation and Modeling in Health Care.
  • 12 Applications of Simulation within the Healthcare Context13 System Dynamics Applications to European Healthcare Issues; 14 One Hundred Years of Operational Research in Health-UK 1948-2048; Index.