title: Advanced management facilities for clinical laboratories.
abstract: As part of the OpenLabs (AIM 2028) programme a decision support system (DSS) for laboratory capacity management has been developed. This DSS contains a simulation module for determining the performance of planning rules given the equipment and staffing of the clinical laboratory and the demand for laboratory services. User requirements are discussed and a method is developed to (re-)define rules concerning various planning decisions. To show the functionality of the simulation module some simulation experiments are described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of Limburg, Maastricht, Netherlands. Frits.vanMerode@BLW.Rulimburg.nl
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: van Merode
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hasman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Derks
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schoenmaker
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Goldschmidt
mesh_terms: D002984:Clinical Laboratory Information Systems; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D009874:Operations Research