Planning Nurses in Maternity Care: a Stochastic Assignment Problem

Mini EURO Conference on Improving Healthcare: new challenges, new approaches

物理学;医药卫生

Phillipson, Frank^1

TNO, POBox 96800, The Hague

2509 JE, Netherlands^1

关键词: Assignment problems;    Expert rule;    Netherlands;    Scenario analysis;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/616/1/012006/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/616/1/012006

学科分类：卫生学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

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.