PMID- 27518713
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180725
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1572-9389 (Electronic)
IS  - 1386-9620 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 1
DP  - 2018 Mar
TI  - Operations research in intensive care unit management: a literature review.
PG  - 1-24
LID - 10.1007/s10729-016-9375-1 [doi]
AB  - The intensive care unit (ICU) is a crucial and expensive resource largely 
      affected by uncertainty and variability. Insufficient ICU capacity causes many 
      negative effects not only in the ICU itself, but also in other connected 
      departments along the patient care path. Operations research/management science 
      (OR/MS) plays an important role in identifying ways to manage ICU capacities 
      efficiently and in ensuring desired levels of service quality. As a consequence, 
      numerous papers on the topic exist. The goal of this paper is to provide the 
      first structured literature review on how OR/MS may support ICU management. We 
      start our review by illustrating the important role the ICU plays in the hospital 
      patient flow. Then we focus on the ICU management problem (single department 
      management problem) and classify the literature from multiple angles, including 
      decision horizons, problem settings, and modeling and solution techniques. Based 
      on the classification logic, research gaps and opportunities are highlighted, 
      e.g., combining bed capacity planning and personnel scheduling, modeling 
      uncertainty with non-homogenous distribution functions, and exploring more 
      efficient solution approaches.
FAU - Bai, Jie
AU  - Bai J
AD  - Universitares Zentrum fur Gesundheitswissenschaften am Klinikum Augsburg 
      (UNIKA-T), Universitatsstrasse 16, 86159, Augsburg, Germany.
AD  - School of Business and Economics, University of Augsburg, Universitatsstrasse 16, 
      86159, Augsburg, Germany.
FAU - Fugener, Andreas
AU  - Fugener A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4580-7444
AD  - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Science, University of Cologne, 
      Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923, Koln, Germany. andreas.fuegener@uni-koeln.de.
FAU - Schoenfelder, Jan
AU  - Schoenfelder J
AD  - Universitares Zentrum fur Gesundheitswissenschaften am Klinikum Augsburg 
      (UNIKA-T), Universitatsstrasse 16, 86159, Augsburg, Germany.
AD  - School of Business and Economics, University of Augsburg, Universitatsstrasse 16, 
      86159, Augsburg, Germany.
FAU - Brunner, Jens O
AU  - Brunner JO
AD  - Universitares Zentrum fur Gesundheitswissenschaften am Klinikum Augsburg 
      (UNIKA-T), Universitatsstrasse 16, 86159, Augsburg, Germany.
AD  - School of Business and Economics, University of Augsburg, Universitatsstrasse 16, 
      86159, Augsburg, Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20160812
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Health Care Manag Sci
JT  - Health care management science
JID - 9815649
SB  - IM
MH  - Hospital Administration
MH  - Hospitals
MH  - Humans
MH  - Intensive Care Units/*organization & administration
MH  - *Operations Research
MH  - Quality of Health Care
MH  - Workforce
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Capacity management
OT  - Health care
OT  - Intensive care unit
OT  - Management science
OT  - Operations research
EDAT- 2016/08/16 06:00
MHDA- 2018/07/26 06:00
CRDT- 2016/08/13 06:00
PHST- 2016/03/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/08/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/08/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/07/26 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/08/13 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s10729-016-9375-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10729-016-9375-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Health Care Manag Sci. 2018 Mar;21(1):1-24. doi: 10.1007/s10729-016-9375-1. Epub 
      2016 Aug 12.