Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery

This book is dedicated to improving healthcare through reducing the delays experienced by patients. One aspect of this goal is to improve the flow of patients, so that they do not experience unnecessary waits as they flow through a healthcare system. It is the first book treatment to have reduction in patient delay as its sole focus, and therefore it provides the foundation by which hospitals can implement change. Reflecting the highly interdisciplinary nature of this book, the chapters have been written by doctors, nurses, industrial engineers, system engineers and geographers. These perspectives provide the comprehensive view needed to address the problem of patient delay.