Les séminaires de recherche sur les systèmes de santé présentent : « Analytical Approaches for the Design and Operation of Stroke Units »

Vedat Verter, Ph. D.
Professeur en gestion des opérations
Faculté de gestion Desautels
Université McGill

Vendredi le 23 septembre 2011
10 h à 12 h
Pavillon Desmarais
DMS 4165

À propos de la présentation (en anglais seulement)

In the context of providing acute in-hospital care for stroke patients, I will discuss the impact of inadequate capacity on patient outcomes, and the opportunities for improving these outcomes through identifying appropriate capacity levels as well as patient admission and bed allocation policies. To this end, I will first present an empirical study conducted at Montreal Neurological Hospital in order to establish the potential impact of emergency department (ED) delays on stroke unit operations and health outcomes. Then, I will present our findings through the use of a comprehensive simulation model of the in-hospital care process for stroke patients. The model is used not only to validate our empirical findings in a more comprehensive environment but also to evaluate the current admissions and bed allocation policies and to explore alternative policies that might decrease ED delays and improve clinical outcomes. Since our simulation model shows significant improvements are possible by switching from the current static bed allocation procedure to a dynamic policy, I will also present an overview of our current work for the development of a stochastic dynamic programming model for optimizing dynamic patient admission policies. Our early computational results with the use of approximate dynamic programming to solve this problem are encouraging.

À propos du conférencier (en anglais seulement)

Vedat Verter is a Professor of Operations Management at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University as well as an Associate Member of McGill's School of Environment. He is also Adjunct Professor at Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. Professor Verter's research focuses on supply chain design, hazardous materials logistics, sustainable supply chains as well as healthcare operations management. In the area of healthcare, Professor Verter focuses on emergency department processes, preventive care programs and chronic care systems. He is co-director of McGill’s MD-MBA Program and Director of a seven-University Ph.D. program across Canada, the NSERC CREATE Program in Healthcare Operations and Information Management. Professor Verter is also Editor-in-Chief of Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, an international journal focusing on public sector decision making.

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