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The Analyses of Individual Patient Pathways : Investigating Regional Variation in COPD readmissions
Adeyemi, Shola; Demir, Eren; Chaussalet, Thierry J (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Publishing House “Technika”, 2009-07-13)Regional variation for those treated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been studied amongst many public health issues. However, for those experiencing frequent readmissions were not considered. The ... -
Analysis of Variability in Neonatal Care Units : A Retrospective Analysis
Adeyemi, Shola; Demir, Eren; Chahed, Salma; Chaussalet, Thierry J (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010)The number of babies needing neonatal care is increasing due mainly to technological and therapeutic advances. These advances have implied a decreasing neonatal mortality rate for low birth weight infants and also a falling ... -
Capturing the readmission process : the focus on the time window
Demir, Eren; Chaussalet, Thierry J (2011)In the majority of studies on patient re-admissions, a re-admission is deemed to have occurred if a patient is admitted within a time window of the previous discharge date. However, these time windows have rarely been ... -
Emergency readmission criterion : a technique for determining the emergency readmission time window
Demir, Eren; Chaussalet, Thierry J; Xie, Haifeng; Millard, Peter H (2008)A frequently chosen time window in defining readmission is 28 days after discharge. Yet in the literature, shorter and longer periods such as 14 days or 90-180 days have also been suggested. In this paper, we develop a ... -
Measuring and modelling occupancy time in NHS continuing healthcare
Chahed, Salma; Demir, Eren; Chaussalet, Thierry J; Millard, Peter H; Toffa, Samuel (2011)Due to increasing demand and financial constraints, NHS continuing healthcare systems seek to find better ways of forecasting demand and budgeting for care. This paper investigates two areas of concern, namely, how long ... -
Towards an evidence based decision making healthcare system management : modelling patient pathways to improve clinical outcomes
Adeyemir, Shola; Demir, Eren; Chaussalet, Thierry J (2013-04)The concept of patient flow modelling has attracted managers, commissioners and clinicians to better understand the operational and clinical functions of the healthcare system. In this context, the current study has two ...