ReviewHealth systems (Basingstoke, England)2023
Mind the gap: a review of optimisation in mental healthcare service delivery.
Review in Health systems (Basingstoke, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Methodological procedures for priority setting mental health research: a systematic review summarising the methods, designs and frameworks involved with priority setting.Health research policy and systems · 2023Pooled it
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- An Exploratory Study of Research Needed for the Improvement of Care and Services for Persons with a Lived Experience of Mental Health Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- A systematic review of operational research modelling for alcohol consumption and its consequences.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2026Review
- Exploring factors associated with company employee involvement in physical activities with older psychiatric outpatients: a qualitative study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Fractured systems: a literature review of OR/MS methods applied to orthopaedic care settings and treatments.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2024Review
- A framework for precision "dosing" of mental healthcare services: algorithm development and clinical pilot.International journal of mental health systems · 2023Article
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Abstract
Well-planned care arrangements with effective distribution of available resources have the potential to address inefficiencies in mental health services. We begin by exploring the complexities associated with mental health and describe how these influence service delivery. We then conduct a scoping literature review of studies employing optimisation techniques that address service delivery issues in mental healthcare. Studies are classified based on criteria such as the type of planning decision addressed, the purpose of the study and care setting. We analyse the modelling methodologies used, objectives, constraints and model solutions. We find that the application of optimisation to mental healthcare is in its early stages compared to the rest of healthcare. Commonalities between mental healthcare service provision and other services are discussed, and the future research agenda is outlined. We find that the existing application of optimisation in specific healthcare settings can be transferred to mental healthcare. Also highlighted are opportunities for addressing specific issues faced by mental healthcare services.
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