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A comprehensive and integrated hospital decision support system for efficient and effective healthcare services delivery using discrete event simulation
Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Tofallis, Chris; Gunal, Murat (2023-12-31)The difficulty that hospital management has been experiencing over the past decade in balancing demand and capacity needs is unprecedented in the United Kingdom. Due to a shortage of capacity, hospitals cannot treat all ... -
A comprehensive modelling framework to forecast the demand for all hospital services
Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Tofallis, Christopher (2019-03-22)Background: Because of increasing demand, hospitals in England are currently under intense pressure resulting in shortages of beds, nurses, clinicians, and equipment. To be able to effectively cope with this demand, the ... -
A decision support system for demand and capacity modelling of an accident and emergency department
Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Tofallis, Christopher (2019-01-06)Accident and emergency (A&E) departments in England have been struggling against severe capacity constraints. In addition, A&E demands have been increasing year on year. In this study, our aim was to develop a decision ... -
Demand and Capacity Modelling of Acute Services Using Simulation and Optimization Techniques
Ordu, Muhammed (2019-05-09)The level of difficulty that hospital management have been experiencing over the past decade in terms of balancing demand and capacity needs has been at an unprecedented level in the UK. Due to shortage of capacity, hospitals ... -
Healthcare Systems and Covid-19: Lessons to be Learnt from Efficient Countries
Ordu, Muhammed; Kirli Akin, Hediye; Demir, Eren (2021-05-02)Background: The novel coronavirus is rapidly spreading over the world and puts the health systems of countries under intense pressure. High hospitalization levels due to the pandemic outbreak have caused the intensive care ... -
A hybrid analytical model for an entire hospital resource optimisation
Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Davari, Soheil (2021-09-01)Given the escalating healthcare costs around the world (more than 10% of the world's GDP) and increasing demand hospitals are under constant scrutiny in terms of managing services with limited resources and tighter budgets. ... -
A novel healthcare resource allocation decision support tool: A forecasting-simulation-optimization approach
Ordu, Muhammed; Demir, Eren; Tofallis, Chris; Gunal, Murat (2020-02-03)The increasing pressures on the healthcare system in the UK are well documented. The solution lies in making best use of existing resources (e.g. beds), as additional funding is not available. Increasing demand and capacity ...