jtaer.com DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762009000200003 Using Visual Analytics to Improve Hospital Scheduling and Patient Flow Janna Anneke Fitzgerald1 and Ann Dadich2 University of Western Sydney‚ Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies 1 a.fitzgerald@uws.edu.au‚2 a.dadich@uws.edu.au Received 8 January 2009; received in revised form 24 May 2009; accepted 15 June 2009 Abstract The increasing demand for hospital emergency services has important implications for the allocation of limited public
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working of outdoor patient departments in a general hospital. There are several out-patient departments and hundreds of patients visit the hospital daily for treatment. The main objective is to minimize the average waiting time of the patients. The current performance is determined and newer ways are identified to improve the performance of the hospital. Various alternatives are found and evaluated by simulating each of them. The objective of minimizing waiting time of the patients is achieved by altering
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Beverly M. Ford Hourly Rounding: A Strategy to Improve Patient Satisfaction Scores P atient satisfaction is an important phenomenon in the health care industry. Health care organizations continually seek innovative approaches to boost patient satisfaction scores. Several studies uncovered nursing behaviors essential to patient satisfaction. Patients value the nurse-patient relationship‚ as well as time spent with them‚ continuity of care‚ trust‚ compassion‚ respect‚ safety‚ understandable
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Improving Patient Satisfaction in Health Care Settings Quantitative Analysis of Business MBAM 5223B Session 7 Article Summary #1 April 05‚ 2014 Health-care managers are tasked with addressing many organizational aspects including patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction is clearly one of the critical priorities for managers. There has been many patient satisfaction studies to respond to the need of improving patient satisfaction. In order to develop an effective intervention
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planned to develop a Hospital Automation System for the well knownhospital called Pannipitiya Nursing Home. Currently the client company depends on an error – prone software system and a large amount of manual work. Development of a new systemwill help the client company to minimize the work load they handle manually and to eliminatethe faults and errors of the existing software system.This proposed system handles the entire hospital work load under seven major functions namely; OPD‚ IPD‚ Medical laboratory
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Original Article Patient Satisfaction with Nursing Care Mohammad Hussain Khan‚ Rasheed Hassan‚ Saeed Anwar‚ Tariq Sohail Babar‚ Khalid Shakeel Babar ABSTRACT Objective: To examine the level of satisfaction with specific dimensions of nursing care in an effort to provide quality improvement knowledge that will lead to understand and identify the principle drivers to patient satisfaction. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at District Headquarter Hospital Dera Ismail Khan‚ from July
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INTRODUCTION. Hospitals are health care institutions that are normally located in areas that are densely populated. There are over 17‚000 hospitals in the whole world. In accord with the original meaning of the word‚ hospitals were originally "places of hospitality"‚ and this meaning is still preserved in the names of some institutions such as the Royal Hospital Chelsea‚ established in 1681 as a retirement and nursing home for veteran soldiers. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital#General) In
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Nightingale Community Hospital: Patient Tracer Summary Western Governors University Nightingale Community Hospital: Patient Tracer Summary Nightingale Community Hospital utilizes a tracer methodology adapted from The Joint Commission to review patient charts weekly. The tracer method provides a precise appraisal of programs and methods for delivery of care and services. A thorough review of current services will help identify possible deficiencies. Patient 453355 medical record
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Topic: Hospitals rejected patients Intro Attention Getter: A news from Bangkok Post (2013)- 31 years old mother was found in a terrified state at her home with a dead baby besides her. She went to a private hospital in Phaya Thai district. Staff said her insurance did not cover the birth of her baby and the service fee was at minimum of 15‚000baht. She could not afford the fees and decided to go back home. She later gave birth by herself‚ resulting in her baby’s death (Fendrickson‚ 2013). This is
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Hospital | Philippine Government Hospital | National Center for Mental Health | Manila adventist Medical Center | National Children’s Hospital | Address | | Nueve de Pebrero St.‚ Mauway Mandaluyong City Philippines 1553 | 1975 Donada St. Pasay‚ City | E. Rodriguez st. Quezon City | Former Name | | Insular Psychiatric hospital‚ National Mental Hospital | Manila Sanitarium and Hospital | National Indigent Children’s Hospital | Year established | 10 September‚ 1910 | 1925 | 1929 | February
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