Title :
Optimization in a Health Care System: a Liver Transplantation Example
Author :
Torres, Gustavo Da Gama ; Ferreira, Ricardo Poley Martins ; Luna, Henrique Pacca Loureiro ; Lima, Agnaldo Soares
Author_Institution :
DCC, Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
Abstract :
This text presents a study in modeling a waiting list of liver transplantation, and the use of the resources that affects the system efficiency. The approach uses the graph theory to modeling the system as a workflow. The objective is to know how the system is, and how it will work after changing some parameters. The focus is the planning and the system management. The work encloses aspects of knowledge representation and optimization. An experiment is described and some conclusions are extracted
Keywords :
graph theory; health care; knowledge representation; liver; medical information systems; optimisation; surgery; graph theory; health care system; knowledge representation; liver transplantation; optimization; system efficiency; system management; Computational modeling; Concrete; Decision theory; Liver diseases; Mathematical model; Medical services; Routing; Testing; Transportation; Workflow management software;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2006. CBMS 2006. 19th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2517-1
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2006.124
