Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management

This book offers an introductory text on quantitative techniques for the student or new professional administrator, as well as a reference manual for health care professionals. It puts the focus on the managerial process, emphasizes leadership behavior and development, structure and purpose of health care organization subunits, inter-functional coordination, and organizational processes. The book also examines applications of operations research techniques in health care institutions, with focus on health care planning, control and decision-making including deterministic and stochastic decision analysis models and their unique use in health care facilities.