Patient mix optimisation in hospital admission planning: a case study
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 April 2002
Abstract
Admissions planning decides on the number of patients admitted for a specialty each day, but also on the mix of patients admitted. Within a specialty different categories of patients can be distinguished on behalf of their requirement of resources. The type of resources required for an admission may involve beds, operating theatre capacity, nursing capacity and intensive care beds. The mix of patients is, therefore, an important decision variable for the hospital to manage the workload of the inflow of patients. In this paper we will consider the following planning problem: how can a hospital generate an admission profile for a specialty, given a target patient throughput and utilization of resources, while satisfying given restrictions? For this planning problem, we will develop an integer linear programming model, that has been tested in a pilot setting in a hospital. The paper includes an analysis of the planning problem, a description of the model developed, an application of a specialty orthopaedics, and a discussion of the results obtained.
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Citation
Adan, I.J.B.F. and Vissers, J.M.H. (2002), "Patient mix optimisation in hospital admission planning: a case study", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 22 No. 4, pp. 445-461. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443570210420430
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