Health care management and SD

["Gianliborio Marrone"]

Hello Everybody,

Im interested in SD models about health care management looking at the managing system from a micro perspective: hospital, departments (to avoid to e ermetic).

I would really appreciate if Anyone of You could give me some address on existing literature and (above all) on existing models I could examine.

Thanx in advance.

Yours,

Gianliborio G. Marrone
From: "Gianliborio Marrone" <gianliborio.marrone@tin.it>

[GBHirsch@aol.com]

Dear Gianliborio,

A good starting point for you would be a special issue on health care of the
System Dynamics Review (Volume 15, Number 3, Fall, 1999) which has several
articles on management of patient care within hospitals and local health care
systems. References cited in these articles would then give you additional
sources to follow up.

Gary Hirsch
From: GBHirsch@aol.com

["Geoff McDonnell"]

Health System Dynamics Modelling (hospitals and departments) : some useful
starters

The System Dynamics Review Fall Issue 1999 Volume 15 was on Health and
Health Care Dynamics and included an article on Spanish public hospitals.
See http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- ... c?ID=11215 for online
archive.
ithink documentation used to include a chapter (10 ) on Re-engineering
Hospital Patient Flows by Steve Peterson in its manuals, including a model
called erplan.itm (I have a version6 model)

There are also some articles on the UK National Health Service from the
System Dynamics Group (Ann van Ackere and Peter C. Smith) at London Business
School at
http://www.lbs.ac.uk/sysdyn/working_papers
ecent_working_papers
ecent_work
ing_papers.html
WP-0018 and WP-0026.

There is also a London School of Economics Working Paper on Accident and
Emergency Departments Improvements by DC Lane et al at the London School of
Economics Operations Research Group (LSEOR 98.23) , ordered via
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/op-research/fs_research.htm

Geoff McDonnell Director, Adaptive Care Systems, Sydney, Australia
From: "Geoff McDonnell" <gmcdonne@bigpond.net.au>