Jan Vissers is affiliated to the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management where he had a chair as Professor of Health Services Operations Management between 2004 and 2016. He retired in 2016 but is still active in publishing papers and supervising students Master Healthcare Management doing their thesis work on a topic related to operations management.

Sylvia Elkhuizen is Assistant Professor of Health Services Operations Management at the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Nathan Proudlove is an Associate Professor in the Health Management Group at Alliance Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester, UK.

Preface

1 Introduction
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen and Nathan Proudlove

Part I Theory and Concepts

2 HSOM concepts
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen and Nathan Proudlove

3 Data and Modelling
Nathan Proudlove

4 Operations management of units
Sylvia Elkhuizen

5 Operations management of process chains
Jan Vissers

6 Improvement approaches
Sylvia Elkhuizen and Nathan Proudlove

7 Linking operations with outcomes
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen and Mahdi Mahdavi

Part II Practice and improvement

Improving healthcare practice
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen and Nathan Proudlove

8 Improving operations management of units
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen and Nathan Proudlove

9 Improving operations management of process chains
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen and Nathan Proudlove

10 Improving operations management of networks
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen and Nathan Proudlove

11 Use and misuse of Queueing Theory for hospital capacity decisions
Nathan Proudlove

12 Surgical admission planning and patient mix optimisation
Jan Vissers

13 Using pathways to model care processes and analyse performance
Jan Vissers

14 Comparative OM analysis of stroke services in six EU countries
Jan Vissers, Sylvia Elkhuizen and Mahdi Mahdavi

15 Analysing process and unit OPM performance for General Surgery
Sylvia Elkhuizen

16 Master scheduling of medical specialists
Jan Vissers

17 Cardio Care simulation. Modelling the interaction between resources
Jan Vissers