A Mixed Integer Programming Model for Regional Planning of a Hospital Inpatient Service: Final Report

摘要

Chapter I summarizes the planning legislation which has been enacted to support and implement regional hospital planning, and presents the objectives of this research in developing a model to aid in such regional planning. Chapter II discusses the basic concepts used in the model--the concepts of a planning hierarchy, the inpatient service and the cost of changes to the service, the demand for the service, and access to the service. Chapter III describes the model, and Chapter IV describes a set of example runs based on data primarily from Rhode Island and discusses the general application of the model.