PATIENT FLOW: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery is dedicated
to improving healthcare through reducing the delays experienced by
patients. One aspect of this goal is to improve the flow of
patients, so that they do not experience unnecessary waits as they
flow through a healthcare system. Another aspect is ensuring that
services are closely synchronized with patterns of patient demand.
Still another aspect is ensuring that ancillary services, such as
housekeeping and transportation, are fully coordinate with direct
patient care. Past experience shows that effective management of
healthcare delays can produce dramatic improvements in medical
outcomes, patient satisfaction, and access to service, while also
reducing the cost of healthcare. The 15 chapters of this book
exposes the healthcare community of researchers, practitioners and
administrators to a set of techniques and strategies that can be
used by clinicians and administrators to substantially reduce
delays in healthcare delivery. It is the first book treatment to
have reduction in patient delay as its sole focus, and therefore,
provides the foundation by which hospitals can implement change.
Reflecting the highly interdisciplinary and practitioner nature of
this book, the chapters have been written by doctors, nurses,
industrial engineers, system engineers and geographers, and thus,
these perspectives provide the comprehensive view needed to address
the problem of patient delay.
The book provides a "hands-on" discussion and methods for
solving a variety of problems that inhibit prompt and swift health
care delivery. Some examples are:
- presents a set of breakthrough strategies that use "real-time"
monitoring systems for continuous improvement;
- offers techniques for scheduling staff needs to match patterns
in patient demand, and thus reduce predictable delays;
- utilizes simulation modeling techniques for both healthcare
design and process improvement;
- provides methods for forecasting the demand for healthcare on a
region-wide basis;
- presents queueing theory as a general method for modeling
patient waits in healthcare;
- outlines rapid delivery of medication in the event of a
catastrophic event, such as a pandemic or terrorist attack;
- demonstrates the importance of optimizing care as patients
transition from one care setting to the next care setting with an
emphasis on clinical outcomes and the business case;
- provides project management tools to guide the implementation
of patient flow projects.
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