Designing patient flow in emergency departments Yariv N. Marmor a , Boaz Golany b , Shlomo Israelit c & Avishai Mandelbaum b a Mayo Clinic, Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, USA b Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Haifa, 32000, Israel c Rambam Health Care Campus, Emergency Department, Haifa, 31096, I...

The current practice of allocating resources within a hospital introduces peaks and troughs in the workloads of departments and leads therefore to loss of capacity. This happens when requirements for capacity coordination are not adequately taken into account in the decision making process of allocating resources to specialties. The first part of this research involved an analysis of the hospit...

This paper reports the development of a simulation model of the radiotherapy department of \Valsgrave Hospital and shows the results of experiments conducted using the model. In the radiotherapy department a key target is the number or days from the time that the consultant refers the patient to the department to the elate that the patient receives their first treatment. Marry factors can affec...

orbital lynphangioma is a low-flow or no-flow vascular malformation. it is a congenital and isolated hemodynamic lesion in which the clinical presentation and onset are related to orbital, peri-orbital or intracranial involvement. in addition, history of previous trauma and upper respiratory tract infection are important predictor factors. high resolution mri, doppler ultrasound and ct-scan are...

background: the b-cell defect in x-linked agammaglobulinemia (xla) is caused by mutations in the gene for bruton's tyrosine kinase (btk). btk mutations result in deficient expression of btk protein in peripheral blood monocytes. methods: using the anti-btk monoclonal antibody (48-2h), a flow cytometric analysis of intra cytoplasmic btk protein expression in monocytes was performed to ident...

Background: Cerebral aneurysm disease causes intracranial hemorrhage by rupturing, which can eventually, lead to organ failure or death. For this reason, it is important to anticipate the reasons for rupturing of a cerebral aneurysm from biomechanical point of view. Investigating this disease may even help the physicians to find treatments and predict the patient’s situation. This research was ...

Hospital overcrowding is a major problem for healthcare systems around the globe. In order to better estimate future demands and adequate resources coping with such demands, statistical computerised modelling can be applied. This then allow administrators decision makers quantify impacts of various “what-if” scenarios on hospital performance measures. paper investigates application Discrete Eve...