Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management: Techniques and Applications (Jossey–Bass Public Health) - Softcover

Ozcan, Yasar A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470434627 ISBN 13: 9780470434628

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Synopsis

This second edition of the text offers an introduction to quantitative methods and techniques for the student or new professional administrator, as well as a reference manual for health care professionals. The revised version greatly expands on the original with a conversion to all Excel–based examples and techniques. The book also includes a comprehensive set of practical methods spanning tactical, operational, and strategic decision–making and analysis for health care managers and administrators. Excel–based macros, templates, and resources will be available online for download.

About this title

About the Author

YASAR A. OZCAN, PH.D., is professor of health administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is an internationally renown expert in the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Dr. Ozcan currently serves as Interim Executive Director, Office of International Education, Virginia Commonwealth University. He is Editor–in–Chief of Journal of Health Care Management Science and past–president of Health Care Applications Section of Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He has contributed several book chapters to the Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Centennial Edition, Eds. S. I. Gass and Carl M. Harris, Kluwer Academic Publishers. He is the author of Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation(Springer, 2008).

From the Back Cover

Thoroughly revised and updated for Excel®, this second edition of Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management offers a comprehensive introduction to quantitative methods and techniques for the student or new administrator. Its broad range of practical methods and analysis spans operational, tactical, and strategic decisions. Users will find techniques for forecasting, decision–making, facility location, facility layout, reengineering, staffing, scheduling, productivity, resource allocation, supply chain and inventory management, quality control, project management, queuing models for capacity, and simulation. The book′s step–by–step approach, use of Excel, and downloadable Excel templates make the text highly practical.

Praise for the Second Edition

"The second edition of Dr. Ozcan′s textbook is comprehensive and well–written with useful illustrative examples that give students and health care professionals a perfect toolkit for quantitative decision making in health care on the road for the twenty–first century. The text helps to explain the complex health care management problems and offer support for decision makers in this field."
Marion Rauner, associate professor, School of Business, Economics, and Statistics, University of Vienna.

"Quantitative Methods in Health Care Administration, Second Edition covers a broad set of necessary and important topics. It is a valuable text that is easy to teach and learn from."
David Belson, professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470434627
• ISBN 13: 9780470434628
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464