We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Healthcare facility design is a complex process that brings together diverse stakeholders
and ideally aligns operational, environmental, experiential, clinical, and organizational …

Delivery of interdisciplinary integrated care is central to contemporary health policy.
Hospitals worldwide are therefore attempting to move away from a functional organisation of …

Background The healthcare scenario in developed countries is changing deeply: patients,
who are frequently affected by multi-pathological chronic conditions, have risen their …

Scholars recently urged for research able to unlock the link between sustainable
development (SD) strategy and intellectual capital (IC) at the organization level. In line with …

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a crucial and expensive resource largely affected by
uncertainty and variability. Insufficient ICU capacity causes many negative effects not only in …

Healthcare has material-centric external and patient-centric internal logistics. Researchers
widely use simulation approaches to model healthcare internal logistics due to the problem …

Purpose The paper identifies the antecedents and consequences of integrated supply chain
performance (ISCP) in healthcare systems. Design/methodology/approach Based on a …

Background An increasing number of hospitals react to recent demographic,
epidemiological and managerial challenges moving from a traditional organizational model …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to investigate which integrative planning and control
practices are used in hospitals and what their effects are on patient flow …