| Description |
1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Elements of improving quality and safety in healthcare |
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Elements of improving quality and safety in healthcare (Series)
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| Contents |
What is operational research? -- A brief history of operational research in UK healthcare -- Operational research in action -- Critiques of the approach |
| Summary |
"Operational research is a collection of modelling techniques used to structure, analyse, and solve problems related to the design and operation of complex human systems. While many argue that operational research should play a key role in improving healthcare services, staff may be largely unaware of its potential applications. We explore operational research's wartime origins and introduce several approaches that operational researchers use to help healthcare organisations: address well-defined decision problems; account for multiple stakeholder perspectives; and describe how system performance may be impacted by changing the configuration or operation of services. We draw on examples that illustrate the valuable perspective that operational research brings to improvement initiatives and the challenges of implementing and scaling operational research solutions. We discuss how operational researchers are working to surmount these problems and suggest further research to help 6 operational researchers have greater beneficial impact in healthcare improvement"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Place of publication from publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
Operations research.
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Health services administration -- Research -- Great Britain
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Health services administration -- Research
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Operations research
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crowe, Sonya, author.
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Pagel, Christina, author.
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| LC no. |
2022030694 |
| ISBN |
9781009236980 |
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1009236989 |
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