Preface; Contents; Contributors; Systems Approach for Preventing Falls in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Using Sensing Devices Surrounding the Patient's Bed; Introduction; Objectives; Detection and Prediction of Dangerous Motions on and Around a Bed; Fall Prevention: Viewpoints of Care-Givers and Care-Receivers; Process Modeling of Care-Givers to Care-Receivers; Conclusion; References; A Multi-objective Patient Admission Planning Improving Resources Utilisation Under Bed Capacity Constraints; Introduction; Previous Works; Model; Notation; Decision Variables; Model; Multi-objective Procedure

ExperimentData; Results; Smoothing the Resource Demands: Minimizing Z1; Minimizing the Penalty Cost Z2; Multi-objective Optimization; Conclusion; References; Multi-criteria Decision Making Approaches to Prioritize Surgical Patients; Introduction; Choosing Criteria for Surgical Patients' Prioritization; Models for Prioritization of Patients; Prioritization Model Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP); Prioritization Model Using Analytic Network Process (ANP); Numerical Application; Discussion and Future Work; References; Bed Managers: The Patient's Personal Assistant; Introduction

General Presentation of the St Luc St Joseph HospitalWhat the Hospital Offers in Terms of Care; The Emergency Department (ED); The Emergency Ward Team; The Organization of Emergency Patient Admittance; Inter Hospital Admittance; Admittance to Different Hospitals; Bed Managing: Or How to Coordinate the Patient Influx and Optimize Care; Within the Hospital in General: The Central Reservation Team; Within the Emergency Department: The Bed Managers; The Bed Managers; Job Profile; Tools; Key Points; Bed Manager: A Few Minor Setbacks; Conclusion; References

An Optimization Model for Sequence Dependent Parallel Operating Room SchedulingIntroduction; Overlapping Surgical Activities; Optimization Model; Computational Experiment; Concluding Remarks; References; A Mean-Field Analysis for the Two-Tiered Healthcare Network Through Nonlinear Markov Processes; Introduction; Model Description; Mean-Field Analysis; The Mean-Filed Scale Equations; The Mean-Filed Block-Structured Equations; Performance Analysis; Limiting Distribution of the Nonlinear Markov Process; Performance Computation; Conclusion; References

Scheduling Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examinations: An Empirical AnalysisIntroduction; Literature Review; Problem Addressed; Simulation Model and Implemented Heuristics; Empirical Results; Base Scenario (CT==0, RC==0, PA==0), Longitudinal Analysis; Factorial Analysis; Conclusion; References; A Managerial Use of the Volume-Outcome Association for Hospital Planning; Introduction; Problem Description; Mortality vs. Mortality Rate; Case Study; Conclusions; References; A Discrete Event Simulation Model for the Admission of Patients to a Home Care Rehabilitation Service; Introduction