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A Model to Optimize Major Trauma Network considering Patient Safety

Vaishnav, Monit D.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9521-202X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1556390743146352

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2019, Master of Science in Industrial and Human Factors Engineering (MSIHE) , Wright State University, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering.
Trauma is any physical injury that has the potential to cause prolonged disability and death if the appropriate level of care is not administered in a timely fashion. Existing approaches in the literature and by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) to optimize the network of trauma centers are limiting. To address this challenge, we introduce the Trauma Network Design Problem, a bi-objective mathematical model that aims at determining the optimal trauma network by minimizing the weighted sum of mistriages. We use the trauma network data from 2012 for the state of Ohio to illustrate the use of our approach and conduct sensitivity analysis. While substantial improvements in mistriages can be realized through our approach, the solutions are sensitivity of the weights in the objective terms, trauma volume, and threshold values. We also illustrate how our approach can be used to compare suggestions from the ACS’s NBATS tool.
Pratik Parikh, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Xinhui Zhang, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Nan Kong, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
46 p.
Industrial Engineering
Trauma Network; Patient Safety; Mistriages; Bi-Objective Optimization

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  • Vaishnav, M. D. (2019). A Model to Optimize Major Trauma Network considering Patient Safety [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1556390743146352

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vaishnav, Monit. A Model to Optimize Major Trauma Network considering Patient Safety. 2019. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1556390743146352.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vaishnav, Monit. "A Model to Optimize Major Trauma Network considering Patient Safety." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1556390743146352

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