Patient flow management is a system-wide process but many healthcare providers do not
integrate multiple departments into the process to minimise the time between treatments or …

Managing patient flow can be an effective strategy to reduce idling hospital beds, thereby
lowering the healthcare cost without sacrificing quality of care. However, improving patient …

Hospitals work to provide quality, safety, and availability to patients with a wide variety of
care needs, which makes efficient prioritisation and resource utilisation essential …

Abstract Department of Health staff wished to use systems modelling to discuss acute patient
flows with groups of NHS staff. The aim was to assess the usefulness of system dynamics …

Put simply, situational awareness means understanding what is going on around you. But
there is more to this statement than first meets the eye. Understanding is more than …

Objectives: To describe the components of an emergency and urgent care system within one
health authority and to investigate ways in which patient flows and system capacity could be …

This paper examines the development of clinical pathways (CP) in a hospital in Australia
based on empirical clinical data of patient episodes. A system dynamics (SD)-based …

Poor patient flow increases the likelihood of harm to patients and raises healthcare costs by
failing to make the best use of skilled staff time. This evidence scan compiles examples, from …

Emergency Room (ER) crowding is one of the more complex issues in the healthcare
system worldwide. Crowding gives rise to long ER waiting times, patient dissatisfaction, and …

Abstract Information systems exist for emergency departments (EDIS'), but even the most
sophisticated ones concentrate on relatively simple coordination, resource allocation and …