A hospital throughput model in the context of long waiting lists.
In a public health system, one of the problems is the size of the waiting list for admission to hospital. This research involves establishing a method of analysing the general surgery waiting list problem at hospital and district level. While there are many aspects to such a study, this paper concentrates on a linear programming model to plan the aggregate throughput of the general surgical department. Preliminary results from applying the techniques to actual health districts in the United Kingdom are reported.
D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006767:Hospitals, District; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010343:Patient Admission; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014850:Waiting Lists