Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH
Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2017.
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| author | Ugarph, Elizabeth |
| author2 | Retsef Levi and David Simchi-Levi. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1115362022-01-28T15:11:36Z Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH Patient flow optimization in the DOM at Massachusetts General Hospital Ugarph, Elizabeth Retsef Levi and David Simchi-Levi. Leaders for Global Operations Program. Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Sloan School of Management Sloan School of Management. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Engineering Systems Division. Leaders for Global Operations Program. Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2017. Thesis: S.M. in Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2017. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-120). In 2015, there were approximately 17,000 General Medicine admissions in the Department of Medicine (DOM) at MGH. General Medicine patients regularly experience significant non-clinical delays caused by bed and care team unavailability, with approximately 25% of patients waiting ten hours or more for a bed. Delays in bed and care team assignments result in decreased patient satisfaction, congestion in the ED and ICUs, and increased overall hospital length-of-stay. This project studies General Medicine patient flow, develops and evaluates interventions to improve this flow, and provides recommendations to hospital leadership. To this end, we construct a discrete-event simulation based on historical data. Intervention effectiveness is measured primarily based on patient-wait-for-bed, the time from when patient is medically ready for an inpatient bed until the bed is assigned to and ready for the patient. We find that the simulation model accurately represents the wait times of General Medicine patients. We propose a new algorithm, which when implemented could reduce overall average patient-wait-for-bed by 9% from 7.36 to 6.67 hours. Implementation of additional capacity and reorganization of the physician care teams (known as the DOM redesign) is shown to result in a further 31% reduction in average wait time (from 6.67 to 4.59 hours). Other interventions tested such as early assignment of patients to care teams based on predicted discharges, and increased flexibility of care teams to cover different units are shown to have modest effects on overall patient-wait-for-bed. by Elizabeth Ugarph. M.B.A. S.M. in Engineering Systems 2017-09-15T15:38:30Z 2017-09-15T15:38:30Z 2017 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111536 1003324821 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 120 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Sloan School of Management. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Engineering Systems Division. Leaders for Global Operations Program. Ugarph, Elizabeth Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH |
| title | Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH |
| title_full | Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH |
| title_fullStr | Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH |
| title_full_unstemmed | Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH |
| title_short | Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH |
| title_sort | patient flow optimization in the department of medicine at mgh |
| topic | Sloan School of Management. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Engineering Systems Division. Leaders for Global Operations Program. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111536 |
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