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Health Policy
Research from University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering provides new data on health policy
June 18th, 2007
Current study results from the report, "Capacity planning for cardiac catheterization: a case study," have been published. "Excessive waiting for procedures such as cardiac catheterization is an important issue for health care systems. Delays are generally attributed to a mismatch between demand and available capacity," investigators in the United States report. "Furthermore, due to the dynamic nature of short-term referral rates, procedure times, and patients' medical urgency, all of which are important contributors to the problem of excessive waiting time, it has been difficult to predict capacity needs accurately. The objective of our paper is to demonstrate how such...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2007-06-18)
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