Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Information Systems
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Flexible shift scheduling of physicians.

30 Aug 2009 This research addresses a shift scheduling problem in which physicians at a German university hospital are assigned to demand periods over a planning horizon that can extend up to several weeks. When performing the scheduling it is necessary to take ... Read more...

A data-integrated simulation model to evaluate nurse-patient assignments.

30 Aug 2009 This research develops a novel data-integrated simulation to evaluate nurse-patient assignments (SIMNA) based on a real data set provided by a northeast Texas hospital. Tree-based models and kernel density estimation (KDE) were utilized to extract ... Read more...

Accommodating individual preferences in nurse scheduling via auctions and optimization.

30 Aug 2009 This paper describes a two-stage approach to nurse scheduling that considers both nurse preferences and hospital constraints. In the auction stage, nurses bid for their preferred working shifts and rest days using "points". An optimization model ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Information Systems'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Flexible shift scheduling of physicians. 30 Aug 2009
• A data-integrated simulation model to evaluate nurse-patient assignments. 30 Aug 2009
• Accommodating individual preferences in nurse scheduling via auctions and optimization. 30 Aug 2009
• Empowerment through automated labor resource management. 29 Nov 2008
• Open shift management. 29 Nov 2008
• Achieving effective staffing through a shared decision-making approach to open-shift management. 29 Jun 2008
• Workload measurement in a community care program. 30 Dec 2007
• Why calculating PACU staffing is so hard and why/how operations research specialists can help. 29 Sep 2007
• Comparing staffing levels in the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) system with the Medicaid Cost Report data: are differences systematic? 30 Jul 2007
• Measuring the workload of community nurses in Ireland: a review of workload measurement systems. 29 Jun 2007
• Utilization of patient classification systems in Swedish hospitals and the degree of satisfaction among nursing staff. 29 Jun 2007
• Easing the staffing burden. Tuality Healthcare turns to a new solution to address its staffing stress. 30 May 2007
• 'Clocking in and out feels draconian and has the slightest edge of mistrust'. 29 Apr 2007
• The 'other' category. Hospitals turn to IT systems outside the financial and clinical realms. 7 Apr 2007
• MMC: mass medical culling. 15 Mar 2007
• Data warehouse approach to nursing management. 27 Feb 2007
• What degree of work overload is likely to cause increased sickness absenteeism among nurses? Evidence from the RAFAELA patient classification system. 30 Jan 2007
• Nursing leadership succession planning in Veterans Health Administration: creating a useful database. 30 Dec 2006
• Nursing by numbers. 29 Sep 2006
• Impact of average patient acuity on staffing of the phase I PACU. 29 Sep 2006

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Technical information about 'Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Information Systems'

Definition: Computer-based systems for use in personnel management in a facility, e.g., distribution of caregivers with relation to patient needs.

Descriptor UI: D010562

Alternative terms: Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Information Systems; Personnel Staffing Scheduling Information Systems; Personnel Staffing Information Systems;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; instrumentation; manpower; organization & administration;

Tree Number: L01.700.508.300.680.800; N04.452.515.800;

History Note: 91(87); was see under MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1987-90

Technical Notes: IM