Title

Efficiency In Pre-Defined Hospital Networks For Disasters. A Methodological Approach

Keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Disaster management; Efficiency; Healthcare; Hospital networks

Abstract

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) suggests collaborative planning among hospitals that provide services to a contiguous geographic area during mass casualty disasters. However, the JCAHO does not specify a methodology to determine which hospitals are included into these cooperative plans. The problem of selecting hospitals to include in exercises and drills at the county level is a common topic in the current preparedness stages. This study proposes a methodology that combines optimization, frontier analysis, and statistical approaches to obtain an efficiency index to determine beforehand, efficient cooperative-networks among hospitals to conduct the response to mass casualty disasters.

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

62nd IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2012

Number of Pages

2464-2473

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84900331227 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84900331227

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