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Logistics and Quality in Health Care, 6 ECTS credits.
/Logistik och kvalitet inom vården/
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 32
Rec. self-study hours: 128
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Area of Education: Social Sciences
Main field of studies: Industrial Engineering and Management,
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): A
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Aim:
The overall aim is that the student should acquire knowledge concerning how knowledge about logistics and quality control (primarily developed in industry and trade) can be applied on a health care context.
After having taken the course, the students should be able to: describe and analyse the health care process, including actors involved, decision taken and by whom, and information flow and IT support needed to make correct decisions. describe the major problems within health care logistics, and relate those to the health care process. in a truthworthy manner discuss differences between goods producing and service organisations, and show what implications these differences have on improvement work within logistics and quality control. reflect upon, and argument for, the importance of knowledge within logistics and quality control, in order to develop organisation and working practices in health care. explain relevant connenctions in different types av health care processes, and analyse the effect when these processes are changed. describe possibilities and limitations of using quality control and logistical models in a health care context. critically review and evaluate the applicability of different methods and models for mapping and analysis of health care processes. use chosen tools and methods to improve health care processes, and to develop material that can serve as a basis for decisions.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Basic course in Logistics and/or Quality control
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
Theoretical principles, models and tools are presented on lectures, where also study tasks are presented and discussed. Field trips support deeper understanding of the health care context. Hand-in exercises are used to more in practice treat things mentioned on lectures and in literature.
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Course contents:
The starting pont is to illuminate the differences between goods producing organisations and health care, which produces services. In the next step, we go into what consequences this has on the use of logistics and quality control. Different methods and tools suitable for health care are presented, for example: Process mapping, Statistical process control, Demand driven planning.
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Course literature:
Research articles. List of articles is made available before the course starts.
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Examination: |
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Written examination
Hand-in assignments
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4 ECTS
2 ECTS
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Good acheivements on UPG1 may render bonus credits on the exam, and thereby affect the final grade on the course. |
Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: Björn Oskarsson
Examiner: Håkan Aronsson
Link to the course homepage at the department
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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