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Layout Planning Problems in Health Care

In: Applications of Location Analysis

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  • Ines Arnolds

    (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

  • Stefan Nickel

    (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Abstract

In general, layout planning problems can be classified as in-house location problems where the aim is to minimize the total pairwise communication or material handling costs based on distances by deciding on the relative positions of any kind of organizational units inside a building. In this chapter the focus is on a hospital layout planning problem where 25 organizational units have to be located on 6 levels of a hospital building. In order to solve the problem, a graph-theoretical approach is applied using real-world data. Furthermore, the idea of an iterative simulation-optimization approach is presented.

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  • Ines Arnolds & Stefan Nickel, 2015. "Layout Planning Problems in Health Care," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: H. A. Eiselt & Vladimir Marianov (ed.), Applications of Location Analysis, edition 1, chapter 5, pages 109-152, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-20282-2_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_5
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    1. Ines Verena Arnolds & Daniel Gartner, 2018. "Improving hospital layout planning through clinical pathway mining," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 263(1), pages 453-477, April.

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