Your Way to Develop a Cellular Emergency Department in Hospitals: Concept and Techniques

Shurrab, Mohammed; Al-Refaie, Abbas

ISBN 10: 3659799394 / ISBN 13: 9783659799396

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Your Way to Develop a Cellular Emergency Department in Hospitals: Concept and Techniques
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659799394
• ISBN 13: 9783659799396
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Emergency Department (ED) is the most critical department in hospitals. Crowdedness and long waiting times of patients in the ED are the most common harmonies problems that hospitals are suffering from. This book provides guidelines to develop a Cellular Service System (CSS) strategy that aims at reducing the average waiting time of the patient in the ED and improving the utilization of nursing staff using Simulation and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Activity-Based Costing (ABC) technique was connected to the ED simulation model so as to determine the costs for each room in ED, including entrance cost, materials cost, medical staff and equipment operation’s cost under several factor combinations. This book is valuable in reducing the waiting time as well as improving nurse utilization in ED, which may result in huge cost savings and lead to improved ED performance.

About the Author

Dr. Mohammed Shurrab received the BSc. and MSc. degrees in Engineering. He joined the Ph.D. Program of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan, in 2015. His main areas of research interest are Simulation, Business Modelling, and Management Optimization. Dr. Shurrab is a member of ASME, IIE, and IEEE.