Operational Research Approaches
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Part of Elements of Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Authors:
- Martin Utley, University College London
- Sonya Crowe, University College London
- Christina Pagel, University College London
- Date Published: November 2022
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- isbn: 9781009236942
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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. This Element explores 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. The authors 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. They discuss how operational researchers are working to surmount these problems and suggest further research to help operational researchers have greater beneficial impact in healthcare improvement. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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- Date Published: November 2022
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009236942
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. What is Operational Research?
3. A Brief History of Operational Research in UK Healthcare
4 .Operational Research in Action
5. Critiques of the Approach
6. Conclusions
7. Further Reading
Contributors
References.
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