TY  - BOOK
AU  - Utley,Martin
AU  - Crowe,Sonya
AU  - Pagel,Christina
TI  - Operational research approaches
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements of improving quality and safety in healthcare,
SN  - 9781009236980 (ebook)
AV  - T57.6 .U85 2022
U1  - 658.4/034 23/eng/20220812
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Operations research
KW  - Health services administration
KW  - Research
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Oct 2022); What is operational research? -- A brief history of operational research in UK healthcare -- Operational research in action -- Critiques of the approach; Open Access
N2  - Operational research is a collection of modelling techniques used to structure, analyse, and solve problems related to the design and operation of complex human systems. While many argue that operational research should play a key role in improving healthcare services, staff may be largely unaware of its potential applications. This Element explores operational research's wartime origins and introduce several approaches that operational researchers use to help healthcare organisations: address well-defined decision problems; account for multiple stakeholder perspectives; and describe how system performance may be impacted by changing the configuration or operation of services. The authors draw on examples that illustrate the valuable perspective that operational research brings to improvement initiatives and the challenges of implementing and scaling operational research solutions. They discuss how operational researchers are working to surmount these problems and suggest further research to help operational researchers have greater beneficial impact in healthcare improvement. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009236980
ER  -