Planning Nurses in Maternity Care: A Stochastic Assignment Problem

Title

Planning Nurses in Maternity Care: A Stochastic Assignment Problem

 Author

Phillipson, F.

Publication year

2015

 Abstract

With 23 percent of all births taking place at home, The Netherlands have the highest rate of home births in the world. Also if the birth did not take place at home, it is not unusual for the mother and child to be out of hospital in a few hours after the baby was born. The explanation for both is the very well organised maternity care system. However, getting the right maternity care nurse available on time introduces a complex planning issue that can be recognized as a Stochastic Assignment Problem. In this paper an expert rule based approach is combined with scenario analysis to support the planner of the maternity care agency in his work.

 Subject

ICT
PNS - Performance of Networks & Systems
TS - Technical Sciences
Infostructures
Operations Research
Information Society
Maternity care system
Personnel staffing and scheduling
Personnel planning
Stochastic approach

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 TNO identifier

524989

 Source

Euro Mini Conference : Improving Healthcare: New Challenges, New Approaches, 30 March - 1 April 2015, Coimbra, Portugal

 Document type

conference paper
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