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Article Excerpt
HALL, RANDOLPH W., ED. 2006. Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery. Springer, New York. 458 pp. $129.00.
This book, which contains 15 papers on the operational aspects of health-care delivery, was written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, and operations research professionals from the United States, Canada, Spain, and the Netherlands. The editor, Randolph Hall, is the vice provost for research advancement and a professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Those of us who are deeply interested in the application of management principles and technologies to health-care delivery will be delighted to receive this book. Not only will it serve to illustrate some outstanding, recent applications of operations research methodologies to health-care issues, but it will also serve to alert health administrators worldwide that a science has grown up to solve the operational problems in health-care delivery, and that they should be using it in their organizations.
The particular focus of the papers in this book is the reduction or elimination of delays. The authors of the first paper, Modeling Patient Flows Through the Healthcare System, set the tone for the rest of...
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