Health Care Systems Engineering for Scientists and Practitioners: HCSE, Lyon, France, May 2015

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Systems Approach for Preventing Falls in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Using Sensing Devices Surrounding the Patient’s Bed....Pages 1-11
A Multi-objective Patient Admission Planning Improving Resources Utilisation Under Bed Capacity Constraints....Pages 13-24
Multi-criteria Decision Making Approaches to Prioritize Surgical Patients....Pages 25-34
Bed Managers: The Patient’s Personal Assistant....Pages 35-40
An Optimization Model for Sequence Dependent Parallel Operating Room Scheduling....Pages 41-51
A Mean-Field Analysis for the Two-Tiered Healthcare Network Through Nonlinear Markov Processes....Pages 53-64
Scheduling Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examinations: An Empirical Analysis....Pages 65-77
A Managerial Use of the Volume-Outcome Association for Hospital Planning....Pages 79-89
A Discrete Event Simulation Model for the Admission of Patients to a Home Care Rehabilitation Service....Pages 91-100
Ambulance Location Problem with Stochastic Call Arrivals Under Nearest Available Dispatching Policy....Pages 101-110
Approach to Clustering Clinical Departments....Pages 111-120
Management of Blood Donation System: Literature Review and Research Perspectives....Pages 121-132
Staffing Ratio Analysis in Primary Care Redesign: A Simulation Approach....Pages 133-144
Disease Prevention and Control Plans: State of the Art and Future Research Guideline....Pages 145-154
A Goal-Programming Approach to the Master Surgical Scheduling Problem....Pages 155-166
How Do Missing Patients Aggravate Emergency Department Overcrowding? A Real Case and a Simulation Study....Pages 167-177
System Dynamics Modelling of Emergent and Elective Patient Flows....Pages 179-191
Markov Decision Process Model for Patient Admission Decision at an Emergency Department in Disasters....Pages 193-202
Crisis Management Plan: Preventive Measures and Lessons Learned from a Major Computer System Failure....Pages 203-214