Enhancing Health Services Management
The Role of Decision Support Systems
Published on 1. June 1997
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-335-19635-7 (ISBN)
Description
Written in particular for practitioners and students of health services planning and management, this text focuses on a critical area for management - enhancing the decision making process. It introduces computer-based decision support systems, showing how such systems can enhance decision making in the health service by promoting careful analysis, considered judgement and the ability to explain the basis on which decisions are made. Case studies of the development and use of these systems are provided.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
638 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-19635-7 (9780335196357)
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Content
Part 1 Context and definition: the context of decision making in the NHS; the nature of decision support systems. Part 2 Strategic service planning: spatial decision support systems for health care planning; improving the balance of elderly care services; activity and capacity planning in an acute hospital; capital investment appraisal in the NHS. Part 3 Operational service planning and management: decision support in primary care; the MaTS maternity staffing model; a decision support system for planning continuity of midwifery services; queue management - what has a DSS approach to offer to improve the running of outpatient clinics?; decision support systems in neurosciences measurement and analysis of clinical activity. Part 4 Policy and organizational learning: a management flight simulator of community care; decision support in objective setting, monitoring and review. Part 5 Future prospects for DSS: future prospects -issues, informatics and methodologies; conclusions.