Abstract
This chapter discusses current trends and key drivers that affect patient flow and efficiency and analyzes the most common myths of resource allocation for healthcare. Providers are now finding that simply adding beds or staff will not solve the commonplace problems of long waits and delays. Contemporary physical design concepts that improve flow for healthcare are described in this chapter, and seven high-leverage steps that can significantly improve flow and expand capacity, and thus limit delays and waiting, are recommended.
Author supplied keywords
- Ambulance diversion
- Artificial variation
- Bed control
- Boarding
- Bottlenecks
- Capacity
- Crowding
- Design
- Discharge lounge
- Emergency department
- Fast track
- Flow
- High impact teams (HIT)
- Just In Time
- Lean
- Random variation
- Rapid admission unit
- Rapid cycle testing (RCT)
- Re-design
- Re-engineering
- Safety net
- Smoothing
- Staffing ratios
- Utilization
- Workforce shortages
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Williams, M. (2006). Hospitals and clinical facilities, processes and design for patient flow. In International Series in Operations Research and Management Science (Vol. 91, pp. 46–77). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33636-7_2
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