Management engineering for effective healthcare delivery principles and applications /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Kolker, Alexander, 1952-, Story, Pierce.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Health services administration > Decision making.; Medical care.; Delivery of Health Care > organization & administration.; Decision Making.; Health Services Administration.; Leadership.; Models, Organizational.; Practice Management > organization & administration.; Dynamic capacity management; EHR and EMR; Healthcare management engineering; Intensive care unit operational modeling; Outlier management; Patient flow; Probabilistic resource optimization; Radio frequency identification; Simulation modeling; Stakeholder dissonance
• Online Access: Chapter PDFs via platform:
• Physical Description: electronic texts (434 p.) : ill., digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9781609608736 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"This book illustrates the power of management engineering for quantitative managerial decision-making in healthcare settings, that assists in predicting performance and/or real resource requirements and allowing decision-makers to be truly proactive rather than reactive"--