Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0349153

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0349153

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Modelling patient flows through hospitals: optimizing effective use of resources. Hospitals are complex, dynamic systems confronted by increased demand in the face of shrinking real capacity. Managing such systems is currently undertaken with sub-optimal analytical support, particularly when demand and capacity are changing and resources must be manipulated to respond to such changes. In this project, the investigators will apply a mathematical modelling approach to the analysis of hospital patient flows. Furthermore, they will employ statistical process control methodologies to the problem of recognising and responding to changes in the flows, so that performance objectives are met. In doing this, they will give health service managers and clinicians a significant advantage in deciding how best to manage a constrained resource to maximize access, throughput and patient outcomes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 17-05-2004

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $308,809.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Stochastic Analysis And Modelling | Statistics | Systems Theory And Control |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Health policy evaluation | Mathematical sciences

Other Keywords

Health policy evaluation | Mathematical sciences | Statistics | Stochastic Analysis And Modelling | Systems Theory And Control

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