Operations Research for Hospital Efficiency and Effectiveness

该研究计划的总体目标是提高最先进的运筹学和管理科学的医院管理。在这种情况下，效率是指利用各种资源所需的运行医院，例如，医生、护士、专职医疗人员、技术人员、护理员、工作人员;有效性是指医院系统在成本、护理质量、获得护理的机会和健康结果方面的总体业绩。提高效率和效力涉及多个利益攸关方、多个目标、各种制约因素，因此需要作出一些艰难的权衡。这构成了一个具有挑战性的问题，其中许多是目前正在解决的医院管理人员根据经验和直觉的温床。运筹学和工业工程构成了方法论领域，我们可以从中受益，通过开发坚实的分析框架，决策支持工具和管理见解来改善当前的医院管理实践。

The overarching objective of this research program is to improve the state of the art in operations research and management science for hospital management. In this context, efficiency refers to the utilization of the variety of resources that are required for running a hospital e.g., physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, technicians, orderlies, staff; and effectiveness refers to the overall performance of the hospital system in terms of the cost, quality of care, access to care and health outcomes. The improvement of efficiency and effectiveness involve multiple stakeholders, multiple objectives, a variety of constraints and hence, a number of difficult trade offs. This constitutes a hotbed of challenging problems many of which are currently being tackled by hospital administrators based on experience and intuition. Operations research and industrial engineering constitute methodology domains from which we can benefit in improving the current practice of hospital management by developing solid analytical frameworks, decision support tools and managerial insights.