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ArticleHealth care management science2008

Restructuring routine elective services to reduce overall capacity requirements within a local health economy.

Martin Utley, Mark Jit, Steve Gallivan

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Article in Health care management science, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Martin UtleyClinical Operational Research Unit, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. m.utley@ucl.ac.uk
Mark Jit
Steve Gallivan

Funding

Department of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The U.K. Government has introduced a new class of health service providers called Treatment Centres that provide routine elective services but that do not deal with emergency cases or non-routine elective patients. The introduction of these centres provides a possible mechanism for improving the efficiency of service delivery in terms of overall capacity requirements. In this paper we discuss a mathematical modelling approach that has been used to examine circumstances under which such benefits might be realised. As an illustration of the analysis, we present results obtained using data concerning urological services, for which there would seem to be benefits associated with the introduction of a TC in only a limited range of circumstances.

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Efficiency, OrganizationalElective Surgical ProceduresHealth Facility AdministrationHealth FacilitiesHospital Bed CapacityHumansLength of StayModels, TheoreticalUnited Kingdom

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