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Operations Research 3) Operational Research Applications to Health Care / Applications de recherche opérationnelle dans les services médicaus
- JOHN BLAKE, Department of Industrial Engineering, Dalhousie University Polytechnic,
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4
Goal programming in hospital case mix management
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Product mix planning models are a well-known class of problems that
have been investigated since the 1950's. In the classic product mix
planning model, a decision maker selects the volume and mix of product
that maximizes profit, subject to constraints on input and production
capability. Over the years, product mix models have been applied in a
variety of industrial settings. Researchers have also attempted to
port product mix models to problems of determining an optimal case mix
for hospitals. These applications have, for a number of reasons been
less than successful. Implementation difficulties include a nave
understanding of health care supply and a failure to recognize the
hospital case mix selection problem as a multi-dimensional problem
encompassing several decision makers, for whom profit maximization may
not be assumed. In this talk, we will introduce goal programming and
describe its application to hospital case mix management. The talk
will focus on both the theory of goal programming and its application
to this problem.
- MICHAEL CARTER, Toronto
To be announced
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