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Concentration and the variability of orthopaedic demand

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  • J Bowers

    (University of Stirling)

  • G Mould

    (University of Stirling)

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Concentrating health services with centres providing selected, specialist care offers a number of potential advantages. The benefits may include the opportunity to improve the quality of care by providing more specialist services and greater expertise, more attractive working conditions with a larger pool of specialists providing the on-call rota and an enhanced opportunity for training. Concentration will produce greater volumes of patients in the selected specialties with the possibility of various economies of scale. A series of simulation experiments explored the potential for efficiencies associated with the increasing volume of non-elective patients in an orthopaedic specialty. As the annual volume of patients increases so the relative variability of the demand for operating theatre time declines: concentrating non-elective orthopaedic activity could offer considerable savings in the theatre time allocated to trauma patients. However, the impact on the wards is much less significant, with concentration having a negligible effect on the requirement for beds.

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  • J Bowers & G Mould, 2002. "Concentration and the variability of orthopaedic demand," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 53(2), pages 203-210, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:53:y:2002:i:2:d:10.1057_palgrave.jors.2601272
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601272
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