Reallocating resources to focused factories: a case study in chemotherapy

Vanberkel, Peter T. and Boucherie, Richard J. and Hans, Erwin W. and Hurink, Johann L. and Litvak, Nelly and Lent van, Wineke A.M. and Harten van, Wim H. (2010) Reallocating resources to focused factories: a case study in chemotherapy. In: Proceedings of the 34th Meeting of the European Group on Operations Research Applied to Health Services, ORAHS. EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services, ORAHS, pp. 152-164. ISBN 9780986617904

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Abstract:	This study investigates the expected service performance associated with a proposal to reallocate resources from a centralized chemotherapy department to a breast cancer focused factory. Using a slotted queueing model we show that a decrease in performance is expected and calculate the amount of additional resources required to offset these losses. The model relies solely on typical outpatient scheduling system data, making the methodology easy to replicate in other outpatient clinic settings. Finally, the paper highlights important factors to consider when assigning capacity to focused factories. These considerations are generally relevant to other resource allocation decisions.
Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty:	Management and Governance (SMG) Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Chair:	Operations Management and Logistics (OMPL)
Research Group:	Stochastic Operations Research (SOR) Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming (DMMP) Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems (IEBIS) Health Technology & Services Research (HTSR)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72525
Organisation URL:	http://orahs2008.mie.utoronto.ca/
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