Systems science in health care
Science des systèmes dans le domaine de la santé : proceedings of the international conference on Systems science in health care, held in Montreal, July 14-17, 1980
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- Vol. 1: [Table des matières] I. Strategic planning / Planification stratégique. 1. A supply-demand equilibrium model for health services planning. 2. Regional facility location model (RELM). 3. Applications of teh Duke OARS model. II. Health development / Santé et développement. III. Health system regulation / Contrôle du système de santé. 1. The NHI proposals : an evaluation. 2. An alternative approach to physician reimbursement : the fee for activities system. 3. The development of ambulatory care as a cost containment strategy. 4. The effects of state hospital rate-setting programs on hospital costs : 1971-77. 5. Hospital closures : modeling their impact on medical costs. 6. Planning for a health maintenance organization. IV. Programs and technologies evaluation / Evaluation de programmes et de technologies. 1. The National Office for the Evaluation of Medical Technology and Procedures (NOEMTP) : a proposal. 2. Assessment of technical quality in health care technologies. 3. Total hip replacement : a review of a recent study. 4. The use of cost-effectiveness analysis for disease prevention programs : an application to cervical cancer screening. 5. Optimal strategies for breast cancer detection. 6. Evaluating the quality of ambulatory abortion services : a cost-effectiveness approach. 7. Designing the data base of the evaluation system of a social program : a criticism of classical methods and proposal for a new approach. V. Health services utilization / Utilisation des services de santé. 1. An analysis of the relation among socio-economic and demographic variables, the disease process, the use of medical services, based on West Germany public health insurance data. 2. The demand for health care services : specification of alternative econometric models. VI. Manpower planning / Planification de la main d'oeuvre. VII. Data bases. VIII. Health status / Etat de santé. IX. Community health / Santé communautaire. X. Health policy / Politiques de santé. XI. Ethical issues / Questions d'éthiques. XII. Human factors / Facteurs humains. XIII. Education
- Vol. 2: [Table des matières] I. Emergency medical services / Services d'urgence. II. Ambulatory care / Services de première ligne. 1. An evaluation of ambulatory health information systems effect on the cost and quality of health care delivery. 2. Computers and ambulatory care in the 1980's : more than just cost justification. III. Mental health / Santé mentale. 1. A stochastic programming model for optimal allocation of demand for a drug abuse rehabilitation treatment system. 2. Applications of ADALGO : an alcoholism diagnostic algorithm. IV. Occupational health / Santé au travail. 1. Occupational health surveillance systems. 2. The occupational accident : its place in epidemiological research. V. Long term care for the elderly / Soins et services prolongés pour les personnes âgées. 1. Validity evaluation of a patient classification system for long-term care. 2. Effect of daily bed occupancy on the utilization of general hospital beds by the elderly. 3. Aid to the aged - their functional handicaps and their living needs : the results of an empirical study. VI. Hospitals classification / Classification des hôpitaux. 1. The use of hospital classification in the review of hospital budgetary bases. 2. The medicare hospital case-mix index. 3. Cost dispersion in public hospitals in relation to case-mix : influence of diagnosis and of soio-demographic variables. VII. Hospital planning / Planification hospitalière. VIII. Hospital productivity monitoring / Contrôle de la productivité hospitalière. 1. Cost containment in hospital support services. IX. Hospital orgaanisation and design / Organisation et design hospitaliers. X. Nursing care / Soins infirmiers. 1. Method for evaluating the quality of nursing care. 2. Development of a nursing process model based on the OREM self care concept for evaluating the quality of nursing care. 3. An objective patient classification system for nurse staffing. XI. Information systems / Systèmes d'information. 1. Interfacing MIS and staff allocation models in alcoholism facilities. 2. Epidemiological observatory for the planning of mental health services