TY - JOUR
T1 - A resource-constrained, multi-unit hospital model for operational strategies evaluation under routine and surge demand scenarios
AU - TariVerdi, Mersedeh
AU - Miller-Hooks, Elise
AU - Kirsch, Thomas
AU - Levin, Scott
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation. This support is gratefully acknowledged, but implies no endorsement of the findings. The authors are grateful to Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Johns Hopkins University, who helped us to understand the intricacies of hospital facility operations.
Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation. This support is gratefully acknowledged, but implies no endorsement of the findings.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 “IISE”.
PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - A patient-based, resource-constrained, multi-unit hospital model is presented for evaluating hospital performance in routine and surge demand scenarios. Physical spaces, patients, medical providers and resources associated with patient care paths spanning hospital units are identified and explicitly modeled. While hospital operations have been extensively studied in the literature, these works primarily focus on individual units and implicitly assume an abundance of resources. This article seeks to fill this gap with a proposed modeling framework that is built on an open queueing network conceptualization of the hospital. The model takes a patient-based perspective. This perspective reveals bottlenecks that are created through interactions between units that arise through shared resources or common downstream capacity requirements as a function of patient needs. That is, interdependencies between units in a hospital emanate from resources (staff and stuff) shared across units, but also depend on the needs of the patients moving through cross-unit care paths. Information critical to hospital modeling obtained through interviews with Johns Hopkins Hospital System personnel is synthesized and applied in developing a generic, urban hospital. The generic hospital model and related predictive models were developed to examine the benefits of the proposed approach.
AB - A patient-based, resource-constrained, multi-unit hospital model is presented for evaluating hospital performance in routine and surge demand scenarios. Physical spaces, patients, medical providers and resources associated with patient care paths spanning hospital units are identified and explicitly modeled. While hospital operations have been extensively studied in the literature, these works primarily focus on individual units and implicitly assume an abundance of resources. This article seeks to fill this gap with a proposed modeling framework that is built on an open queueing network conceptualization of the hospital. The model takes a patient-based perspective. This perspective reveals bottlenecks that are created through interactions between units that arise through shared resources or common downstream capacity requirements as a function of patient needs. That is, interdependencies between units in a hospital emanate from resources (staff and stuff) shared across units, but also depend on the needs of the patients moving through cross-unit care paths. Information critical to hospital modeling obtained through interviews with Johns Hopkins Hospital System personnel is synthesized and applied in developing a generic, urban hospital. The generic hospital model and related predictive models were developed to examine the benefits of the proposed approach.
KW - Hospital modeling and management
KW - patient flow modeling
KW - predictive models
KW - queueing network in health care
KW - resource management
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U2 - 10.1080/24725579.2019.1584132
DO - 10.1080/24725579.2019.1584132
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064595507
SN - 2472-5579
VL - 9
SP - 103
EP - 119
JO - IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering
JF - IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering
IS - 2
ER -