Thoroughly revised and updated for Excel (R), this second
edition of Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management offers a
comprehensive introduction to quantitative methods and techniques
for the student or new administrator. Its broad range of practical
methods and analysis spans operational, tactical, and strategic
decisions. Users will find techniques for forecasting,
decision-making, facility location, facility layout, reengineering,
staffing, scheduling, productivity, resource allocation, supply
chain and inventory management, quality control, project
management, queuing models for capacity, and simulation. The book's
step-by-step approach, use of Excel, and downloadable Excel
templates make the text highly practical.
Praise for the Second Edition
"The second edition of Dr. Ozcan's textbook is comprehensive and
well-written with useful illustrative examples that give students
and health care professionals a perfect toolkit for quantitative
decision making in health care on the road for the twenty-first
century. The text helps to explain the complex health care
management problems and offer support for decision makers in this
field."
Marion Rauner, associate professor, School of Business,
Economics, and Statistics, University of Vienna.
"Quantitative Methods in Health Care Administration, Second
Edition covers a broad set of necessary and important topics. It is
a valuable text that is easy to teach and learn from."
David Belson, professor, Department of Industrial
Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern
California.
Author Biography
YASAR A. OZCAN, PH.D., is professor of health administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is an internationally renown expert in the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Dr. Ozcan currently serves as Interim Executive Director, Office of International Education, Virginia Commonwealth University. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Health Care Management Science and past-president of Health Care Applications Section of Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). He has contributed several book chapters to the Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Centennial Edition, Eds. S. I. Gass and Carl M. Harris, Kluwer Academic Publishers. He is the author of Health Care Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation(Springer, 2008).
