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Health Care Logistics, 6 ECTS credits.
/Vårdlogistik/
For:
FT
SL
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 50
Rec. self-study hours: 110
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Area of Education: Social Sciences
Main field of studies: Logistics
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): G2
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Aim:
The goal of this course is to provide students with knowledge in how to apply both qualitative and quantitative methods for design and analysis of patient flows, material flows and information flows in health care. After completion of the course the student will be able to:
- Describe the care process as a whole, including the decision making process and what information and systems support is required for decision making.
- Understand and explain the consequences of inefficiencies in the care process
- Account for main problem areas in health care logistics
- Describe which modelling and solution methods are used for the discussed problem areas and apply a selection of these methods, such as simulation and optimization
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Courses in logistics management, optimization, simulation. Cost-benefit analysis.
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:
Lectures discuss fundamental concepts and issues in health care logistics and introduce methods for modelling and analysis.
Hand-in assignments, which partly are solved with help of special software, aim to illustrate how methods discussed in lectures can be applied to specific problems in health care.
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Course contents:
- Administration of health care
- Care process - actors and activities
- Health care logistics - concepts and definitions
- Quality and performance measurement in care processes
- Resource allocation and capacity planning
- Simulation of patient flows
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Course literature:
Hand-out material and selected parts of following books
Jan Vissers & Roger Beech (2005) �?�Health Operations Management: Patient Flow Logistics in Health Care�?�, Routledge
Daniel B. McLaughlin & Julie M. Hays (2008) �?�Healthcare Operations Management�?�, Health Administration Press
Randolph W. Hall, (Ed.) (2006) �?�Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery�?�, Springer
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Examination: |
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Written examination
hand-in assignments
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2 ECTS
4 ECTS
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The final grade is a weighted average of the different examination elements. |
Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: ITN.
Director of Studies: Erik Bergfeldt
Examiner: Krisjanis Steins
Link to the course homepage at the department
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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