Background: Despite extensive research into adverse events, there is no quantitative
estimate for the risk of experiencing adverse events per day spent in hospital. This is …

Healthcare facilities throughout Europe are constantly changing to support efforts to provide
efficient healthcare services with decreasing resources. Recent changes include larger and …

For many years, average bed occupancy level has been the primary measure that has
guided hospital bed capacity decisions at both policy and managerial levels. Even now, the …

Faced with diminishing government subsidies, competition, and the increasing influence of
managed care, hospitals are under enormous pressure to cut costs. In response to these …

The Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide
to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in …

This article presents a literature review of the challenges and possibilities for Lean design in
modern health-care facilities. Many of today's health-care facilities are in dire need of …

There is an ongoing debate about the reasons for the growth of temporary employment of
registered nurses (RNs). Some argue that efficiency incentives to increase flexibility and …

In this paper, we study hospital bed capacity management for a set of existing hospitals
when the demand for beds is random. We propose a multiobjective stochastic program …

Under the constraints of limited medical resources and severe competition among hospitals,
administrators have begun to pay attention to the opportunities of cost reduction and quality …

Recent changes to regulation legislation permit Spanish ports more autonomy and a degree
of control over pricing policy. This implies a shift in emphasis away from investments in new …