The scheduling of surgical operations in a hospital is a complex problem, with each surgical specialty having to satisfy their demand while competing for resources with other hospital departments. This project extends the construction of a weekly timetable, the Master Surgery Schedule, which assigns surgical specialties to operating theater sessions by taking into account the post-surgery resou...

Acknowledgements: Portions of this paper were developed in Eric Barrette’s dissertation and funded by AHRQ R36 dissertation grant #HS18272-01. We are grateful for insightful and constructive comments from Roger Feldman, Stephen Parente, Alok Gupta, Shane Greenstein, Ira Moscovice and participants at the 22 nd Annual Health Economics Conference and 2 nd Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics...

This paper explores the possibilities of using GIS for private hospitals at Jeddah city, Saudi Arabia. A GIS application is created to cover three main health planning issues which are distribution of health demand, classification of hospital patients and the definition of hospital service area. Each one of these issues is covered using several GIS functions including network analysis and overl...

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand. We use a marketing survey to measure amenities at hospitals in greater Los Angeles and analyze the choice behavior of Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that the mean valuation of amenities is positive and substantial. From the patient perspective, hospital qua...

BACKGROUND Emergency departments (EDs) are critical to the management of acute illness and injury, and the provision of health system access. However, EDs have become increasingly congested due to increased demand, increased complexity of care and blocked access to ongoing care (access block). Congestion has clinical and organisational implications. This paper aims to describe the factors that ...

Background Hospitals are constantly being challenged to provide high-quality care despite ageing populations, diminishing resources, and budgetary restraints. While the costs of care depend on the patients’ needs, it is not clear which patient characteristics are associated with the demand for care and inherent costs. Therefore, a practical explanatory model would avail healthcare professionals...

The authors challenge the assumption that organizations are willing to use all the volunteer labor available to them. Rather, they are influenced by the costs incurred of utilizing volunteer labor. This article provides a modest first look at the demand for volunteers by nonprofit institutions. Specifically, the article presents an economic analysis of the demand of volunteer labor by hospitals...

the aim of this study was to represent effective componentsin demand chain which help organizations attain high performance levelsthrough identification of these components and determining theirdegree of importance. the following questions were major ideas of thisstudy: what are the most effective components in demand chain? andhow are they effective on organizational performance? to this end,m...

BACKGROUND The workload of emergency departments (ED) continually changes in response to presentations, overcrowding and availability of expertise and investigations. AIMS To investigate changes in ED presentations and care processes, and the relationship of patient demand and ED staff resources to waiting times and processing times. METHODS Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected...

We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to analyze determinants of the demand for supplemental health insurance covering hospital and dental in Germany. The GSOP dataset provides doctor diagnosed indicators of the individual’s health state, risk attitude, and demand for medical services and insurance purchases in other lines of insurance as well as rich demographical and socioeconomical ...