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Rationalizing rural hospital services in Kazakstan
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 1999The Soviet health care system placed great emphasis on specialist hospitalization. Primary care, in contrast, was viewed primarily as prophylactic and also identified patients for admission to hospital. This led to long lengths of stays, since patients were provided with outpatient type care in hospital, and unnecessary admissions.
T, Ensor, R, Thompson
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Rational Planning for Drug Abuse Services
Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, 1974(1974). Rational Planning for Drug Abuse Services. Journal of Psychedelic Drugs: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 269-276.
B S, Ramer, R B, Flohr
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Towards rational midwifery service planning
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1980Although the work reported here began at health district level, even a casual perusal of published statistics reveals a quite bizarre situation when viewed from a manpower planning perspective. The quite considerable effort involved in producing state‐certified midwives seems, on the surface at least, to be excessive given the number gainfully employed
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Bounded Rationality in Service Systems
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2011The traditional operations management and queueing literature typically assumes that customers are fully rational. In contrast, in this paper we study canonical service models with boundedly rational customers. We capture bounded rationality using a model in which customers are incapable of accurately estimating their expected waiting time.
Tingliang Huang +2 more
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Rationing of Intensive Care Unit Services
Survey of Anesthesiology, 1986We investigated the extent to which bed availability affects decision making in an intensive care unit (ICU). For 1,151 ICU patients, we determined the number of empty ICU beds available at times of admission and discharge and the outcome for those patients. For a randomly chosen group we assessed severity of illness.
M J, Strauss +4 more
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Rationalizing the customer service process
Business Process Management Journal, 2001Satisfying customers is the best method for organizations to gain competitive advantage. To deliver quality services to customers, we need to understand their expectations. Given accurate understanding of expectations, customer service, which can be regarded as a process that consists of several steps to satisfy customer requirements, should be ...
Kim, HW Kim, Hee-Woong +1 more
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Public service motivation and rational choice modelling
Public Money & Management, 2015While most previous research has considered public service motivation (PSM) as the only motivational factor predicting (public) job choice, the authors present a novel, rational choice-based model which includes three motivational dimensions: extrinsic, enjoyment-based intrinsic and prosocial intrinsic.
Neumann, Oliver, Ritz, Adrian
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Medical progress and rationing of cardiological services
Zeitschrift f�r Kardiologie, 2000Due to the financial restrictions imposed on all national health services, the problem of allocating medical resources has gained new economical and political dimensions. Although each patient expects optimal treatment, the rationing of medical services make it increasingly difficult to provide the most adequate therapy.
J, Kreuzer, W, Kübler
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Bounded rationality in clearing service systems
European Journal of Operational Research, 2020zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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