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Basic Group Philosophy

Mark Fackrell (Editor's Summary) on Phase-type Distributions in Healthcare Modelling I
Derek Meyer on GIPS, MIPS and Metaclinicians

Conference in Adelaide, May 2006: This explored some issues in the developing Nosokinetics scene (Ed):
Nosokinetics: Mission and Scope: We have a mission document agreed by the group at the conference;
Nosokinetics - Staking our claim: We also have conference papers by Mark Mackay, University of Adelaide, and by John O'Brien; also some user feedback comment...

Terry Mills: Maths is good for your health

Hospital Planning Cycles

Christopher Bain on 'Looking Around from the Inside...'
John Bowers and Gillian Mould on Outpatient Models for a Diagnosis and Treatment Centre.
Red Ceglowsky (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.
Anthony Codrington-Virtue on Simulating Accident and Emergency Services with a generic process model.
Eren Demir (PhD student, HSCMG University of Westminster) on A Method for Determining an Emergency Readmission Time Window.
Mark Joy on Measuring Bed Requirements
Carl Long asks Peter Millard: "Ac = Lv: how does that help me?"
Carl Long and Peter Millard on Axial Flow
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

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.

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.
Brijesh Patel on The NHS Plan and performance assessment frameworks

Waiting List Analysis

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 on Modelling Queues in A&E
Leon K Au continues on Modelling 'Rate of Admission'
Chaussalet T J, Xie H, Millard P: A Closed Queueing Network Approach to the Analysis of Patient Flow in Health Care Systems
DM Fatovich on Access Blocks in A&E

Roy Johnston initiates a discussion on a queue-theoretic approach to the provision of services in the presence of stochastic demand. See also Hospital Queue Networks: Extracts from an email conversation between Roy Johnston and John Preater on queueing networks, or 'queues within queues', have appeared in recent editions of Nosokinetics News. This article comprises an additional account of these networks.

Naoru Koizumi on a Queuing Model for upstream blocking in acute hospitals
Mark Mackay on Surgical Waiting Lists in Australia.
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.

Historical Background

Malcolm Faddy in Brisbane and Sally McClean in Northern Ireland on geriatric medical care.
Steve Gallivan on Can Patient Choice Degrade Health Systems?
Chooi Lee on Welfare State to Welfare Market Part 1
Chooi Lee as above Part 2
Derek Meyer on GIPS, MIPS and Metaclinicians

Nursing Experience, Bed Management

Christine Duffield on Nursing Workload
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.

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