title: A decision support model and analysis for hospital administrators when choosing future strategies of their hospitals.
abstract: How to allocate a hospital's finite resources to health care is an extremely important problem for hospital management. This paper shows what kind of business strategies a given hospital should consider, and present a model to support such decision making. From the model, a hospital can decide how much to emphasize different tasks in order to set a given direction for the future. We used nonlinear discriminant functions to derive a decision support model, based on findings from 831 hospital directors. This model provides a probabilistic basis for deciding how much a given hospital should emphasize any of a number of different strategies.
authors: School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Sekita
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Omichi
mesh_terms: D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods*; D007564:Japan; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010934:Planning Techniques