Patient Flow Logistics

Rossella Pellegrino; Stefano Villa

Patient Flow Logistics

Rossella Pellegrino^*
, Stefano Villa

^*Corresponding author

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Abstract

Patient flow logistics has to do with the management of patient physical paths/routes within a healthcare delivery organization from the very first access, to the triage towards the most appropriate setting, until the very end phase of discharge and integration with post-acute care. The focus is the optimization of patient flows throughout all the different production units along the entire healthcare chain.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Healthcare Management
Pages	253-255
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

healthcare operations
patient flows logistics

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Patient Flow Logistics

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