Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research: Final Report. - AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Industrial and Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research: Final Report.
Valdez RS, Ramly E, Brennan PF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 2010. AHRQ Publication No. 10-0079-EF.

This workshop report explores why efforts to apply industrial and systems engineering (ISyE) knowledge to health care have been generally unsuccessful and suggests a research and action agenda using ISyE knowledge to create an ideal health care delivery system.

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