Admission, discharge, and transfer control in patient flow logistics: Overview and future research

H Zamani, F Parvaresh, N Izady, RZ Farahani - … Research Part E: Logistics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Patient flow logistics involves managing and coordinating the movement of patients within a
healthcare system. It aims to optimize the patients' flow from their arrival to discharge or …

Sharing service in healthcare systems: A recent survey

Z Wang, H Chen, J Luo, C Wang, X Xu, Y Zhou - Omega, 2024 - Elsevier
Innovation in the sharing economy continues to thrive within healthcare systems. Emerging
internet platforms and traditional hospitals/alliances have created diverse healthcare …

Payment schemes for resource reallocation in hierarchical medical system: Fee-for-capacity versus performance payment

ZP Li, JJ Wang, L Yu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explores resource reallocation, or capacity sinking, in a hierarchical medical
system that includes a healthcare funder, a comprehensive hospital, a community hospital …

[HTML][HTML] Reconfiguration of inpatient services to reduce bed pressure in hospitals

N Izady, B Arabzadeh, N Sands, J Adams - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Healthcare systems around the world are facing an inpatient bed crisis. This was highlighted
more than ever during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The consequences of bed shortage …

Inpatient Overflow Management with Proximal Policy Optimization

J Sun, J Dai, P Shi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.13767, 2024 - arxiv.org
Overflowing patients to non-primary wards can effectively alleviate congestion in hospitals,
while undesired overflow also leads to issues like mismatched service quality. Therefore, we …

Limits of capacity flexibility: Impact of hallway placement on patient flow and quality of care in the emergency department

A Feizi, W Baker - Available at SSRN 3929489, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
A common surge-capacity policy in busy emergency departments (EDs) is to admit patients
from the waiting area to hallway beds as the regular beds fill up. Despite its prevalence, the …

Optimizing hospital bed allocation for coordinated medical efficiency and quality improvement

H Yu, T Shen, L Zhong - Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2024 - Springer
In this study, we aim to optimize hospital bed allocation to enhance medical service
efficiency and quality. We developed an optimization model and algorithms considering …

Reconfiguration of inpatient services to reduce bed pressure in hospitals

B Arabzadeh - 2022 - openaccess.city.ac.uk
Healthcare systems around the world are facing an inpatient bed crisis. This crises has been
highlighted, more than ever before, during the recent Covid-19 pandemic. Our aim in this …

[HTML][HTML] Geographic cohorting by clinical care team: a narrative review

E Bressman, R Kohn, H Song… - Annals of Palliative …, 2023 - apm.amegroups.org
Methods: We conducted a narrative review of the evidence around geographic cohorting of
patients by clinical care team. We performed a comprehensive search of the PubMed …

A Serious Game for Healthcare Professionals to Show the Capacity Pooling Effect

MD Bovenhuis - 2024 - essay.utwente.nl
Research Motivation The increasing demand for care in combination with the limited
capacity in healthcare, places increasing pressure on healthcare. This means that decision …