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Case Article—Miller Pain Treatment Center—Eastern Hospital Outpatient Center

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  • Chester Chambers

    (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, 100 International Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21202)

  • Kayode Williams

    (Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205)

Abstract

Introductory courses in operations management typically introduce students to process analysis and queuing theory. We apply these tools to consider patient flows in an outpatient clinic where processes are made more complex by inclusion of the teaching mission of an Academic Medical Center. The case narrative deals with a physician who moved his practice from a setting with no teaching mission to the academic setting. This created a natural experiment because he began treating the same patients using a different process flow. Students are asked to use data collected at both settings to compare and contrast these flows. The protagonist weighs options designed to improve an appointment schedule, change patient punctuality, and introduce a type of pre-processing of patients. Evaluation of these proposals calls for a different style of analysis. Students are introduced to the use of discrete event simulation to address such questions. Simulation models are provided corresponding to the two clinic settings. This allows students to conduct and learn from virtual experiments using calibrated models. The case fills a need for material that covers issues in healthcare delivery, which the basic tools of process analysis and queuing theory are insufficient to fully address.

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  • Chester Chambers & Kayode Williams, 2017. "Case Article—Miller Pain Treatment Center—Eastern Hospital Outpatient Center," INFORMS Transactions on Education, INFORMS, vol. 17(3), pages 116-120, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orited:v:17:y:2017:i:3:p:116-120
    DOI: 10.1287/ited.2017.0176ca
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    1. John Blake, 2016. "Introduction to the Special Issue: Teaching Healthcare Operations Research, Part 1," INFORMS Transactions on Education, INFORMS, vol. 16(3), pages 85-86, May.
    2. Lewis, Michael A. & Maylor, Harvey R., 2007. "Game playing and operations management education," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 105(1), pages 134-149, January.
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