Analytical Methods for Planning and Scheduling Daily Work in Inpatient Care Settings: Opportunities for Research and Practice

Authors

Laila Cure Ph.D., Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Western Michigan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Version

publisher_pdf

Publication Date

10-2013

Abstract

This article identifies current challenges in the planning and execution of daily work in inpatient care settings. Inadequate planning of the processes and resources associated with inpatient care services may negatively affect their effectiveness. It may also lead to burnout of healthcare workers when the resulting work plan is unknowingly infeasible or does not incorporate the necessary human factors considerations. This paper provides with an overview of current research on inpatient care workflow planning, as well as with directions for researchers and practitioners to advance this problem using a combination of human factors engineering and analytical methods.

WMU ScholarWorks Citation

Cure, Laila Ph.D., "Analytical Methods for Planning and Scheduling Daily Work in Inpatient Care Settings: Opportunities for Research and Practice" (2013). Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement. 24.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/ichita_transactions/24