Modern Project Management

(ISSN: 2317-3963)

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Project Planning for Improvement in a Healthcare Environment: Developing a Prioritization approach to manage patients' access to the Urodynamics exam

Ana Tereza Lopes Pécora
Complexo Hospital de Clínicas - CHC- UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) Brazil
Rogério de Fraga
Complexo Hospital de Clínicas - CHC- UFPR - Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) Brazil
Angel Ruiz
Faculté des sciences de l'administration (FSA), Pavillon Palasis-Prince, 2325, rue de la Terrasse, Université Laval (ULAVAL), Québec, Canada G1V 0A6 Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur les Reseaux d'Entreprise, la Logistique et le Transport (CIRRELT) Canada
José Roberto Frega
Laboratório de Inovação para Cidades Inteligentes (LINCI) - Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) Departamento de Administração Geral e Aplicada (DAGA) – Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) Brazil
Jose Eduardo Pecora Jr
Universidade Federal do Paraná Brazil

Abstract

The first in-first out rule does not seem the most appropriated to manage the access of patients to health exams or services such as surgery. Indeed, each patient has his/her level of urgency and, furthermore the utility that each patient retires from the service differs according to several clinical but also risk and social related aspects. The decision of which patient to prioritize is tough because, in the current context where capacity is much lower than demand, choosing one patient means to delay others. Thus, this paper proposes a project methodology to prioritize patients into a Urodynamic service. The methodology, developed by a multidisciplinary team, is applied in a public hospital in Brazil, taking into consideration clinical and social criteria. We interviewed Urodynamics specialists, and a Fuzzy-AHP method is used to compute the weight of each criterion. Our preliminary results show the potential of the proposed methodology and methods, and that not only for the described case, but to other health services facing similar problems.

Keywords: Patients' Prioritization, Urodynamics, Project Management, Fuzzy AHP, Healthcare Management.

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