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Revlin Abbi (PhD Candidate, Harrow School of Computer Science, University of Westminster): Mining length of stay data for better understanding patient flow

Leon K Au:

Christopher Bain on 'Looking Around from the Inside...'

John Bowers and Gillian Mould on Outpatient Models for a Diagnosis and Treatment Centre.

Red Ceglowski (Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University) on Could a DSS do this? Analysis of coping with overcrowding in a hospital emergency department.

Chaussalet T J, Xie H, Millard P: A Closed Queueing Network Approach to the Analysis of Patient Flow in Health Care Systems

Anthony Codrington-Virtue on a generic approach to the modelling of A&E processes.

Christine Duffield: Nursing Workload

Eren Demir (PhD student, HSCMG University of Westminster) on A Method for Determining an Emergency Readmission Time Window.

Mark Fackrell (Editor's Summary) on Phase-type Distributions in Healthcare Modelling I

Malcolm Faddy in Brisbane and Sally McClean in Northern Ireland on geriatric medical care.

DM Fatovich: Access Blocks in A&E

Steve Gallivan: Can Patient Choice Degrade Health Systems?

Roy Johnston initiates a discussion on a queue-theoretic approach to the provision of services in the presence of stochastic demand; see also Preater on Hospital Queue Networks, which contains extracts from an email conversation between Roy Johnston and John Preater on queueing networks, or 'queues within queues'.

Mark Joy: Measuring Bed Requirements

Naoru Koizumi: a Queuing Model for 'upstream blocking' in acute hospitals

Chooi Lee:

Welfare State to Welfare Market Part 1
Welfare State to Welfare Market Part 2

Carl Long and Peter Millard:

Mark Mackay Principal Project Officer, Department of Health, South Australia

Surgical Waiting Lists in Australia
Nosokinetics - Staking our claim (Adelaide Conference paper, May 2006)
Looking in from the outside; time to get through the door

Derek Meyer on GIPS, MIPS and Metaclinicians

Peter Millard (Editor):

Measuring and Modelling Hospital Care: old or new physics
Opportunities and challenges for modellers in NHS reforms
One size does not fit all: structure, pattern, process and location play their part.

Terry Mills: Maths is good for your health

Peter Olley: Optimal bed utilization is a headache for both clinicians and health care economists and has triggered various strategies for best management. This is a brief account of one solution to the problem.

Brijesh Patel on The NHS Plan and performance assessment frameworks

Professor Michael Pidd (Lancaster) on Understanding diminishing returns in the reduction of waiting times,

Professor Glen Schmidt (University of Utah, Salt Lake City) on Applicability of the OM Trangle to Health Care.

Barry Shaw and Adele H Marshall on Modelling Bed Costs for the Elderly.

Christos Vasilakis: On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) in the provision of health care; building capacity for exploratory data analysis and facilitating decision making.

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