Paper Info
Title
Quantitative analysis of investment allocation over various resources of health care systems by using views of product lines
Abstract
Hospitals can be viewed as service enterprises, of which the primary function is to provide specific sets of diagnostic and therapeutic medical services to individual patients. Each patient has certain diagnosis and therapeutic attributes in common with some other patients. Thus, patients with similar medical attributes could be ‘processed’ in one ‘product line’ of medical services, and individual treatments for patients within one ‘product line’ can be regarded as incurring identical consumption of health care resources. This article presents a theoretical framing for resource planning and investment allocation of various resources from a macro perspective of costs that demonstrates the need to plan capacity at the disaggregated resource level. The result of a balanced line ‘optimal’ is compared with an alternative scheme of ‘the same ratio composing of resources’ under the same monetary constraints. Thus, it is demonstrated that planning at the disaggregated level affords much better use of resources than achieved in common practice of budget control by simple percentage increase/decrease in distributing a financial vote.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1080/00207721.2012.684898
Int. J. Systems Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
health care resource,various resource,product line,similar medical attribute,medical service,investment allocation,disaggregated level,quantitative analysis,therapeutic medical service,balanced line,common practice,individual patient,health care system,disaggregated resource level,health care
Health care,Framing (construction),Resource planning,Mathematical optimization,Balanced line,Actuarial science,Risk analysis (engineering),Capacity planning,Product line,Macro,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
44
11
0020-7721
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.43
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guangfu Tai1212.20
Peter Williams268981.07