Operational research approaches

• Tác giả: Sonya Crowe, Christina Pagel, Martin Utley
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9781009236980 (ebook)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 658.4034 Executive management
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (35 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313207
• Chủ đề: 1. Health services administration--Research--Great Britain; 2. Operations research

Tóm tắt

 Operational research is a collection of modelling techniques used to structure, analyse, and solve problems related to the design and operation of complex human systems. While many argue that operational research should play a key role in improving healthcare services, staff may be largely unaware of its potential applications. This Element explores operational research's wartime origins and introduce several approaches that operational researchers use to help healthcare organisations: address well-defined decision problems
  account for multiple stakeholder perspectives
  and describe how system performance may be impacted by changing the configuration or operation of services. The authors draw on examples that illustrate the valuable perspective that operational research brings to improvement initiatives and the challenges of implementing and scaling operational research solutions. They discuss how operational researchers are working to surmount these problems and suggest further research to help operational researchers have greater beneficial impact in healthcare improvement. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.