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Back Improving Healthcare Delivery for PTSD: an Integrated Approach Leveraging Systems Engineering and Organizational Design
Fiscal Year | 2010 |
Division | Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences |
Department | Information Sciences |
Investigator(s) | Gallup, Shelley P. |
Sponsor | Veteran's Administration Medical Center (Other-Fed) |
Summary |
We propose to use a phased, systems engineering approach to develop a model of VA healthcare delivery for PTSD as an informative case study. The outcome of the study is specifically intended to improve the system of PTSD health care delivery around measures of performance related to two general areas: (1) Treatment assignment and tracking of patients with PTSD (a) Efficiency of patient assignment to appropriate healthcare provider (b) Comprehensive tracking of patients from inpatient to outpatient care (2) Staffing clinic to optimize the delivery of evidence-based care for patients with PTSD: (a) Efficiency of care delivery, e.g. substantially decreasing wait-times (b) The quality of patient outcomes (c) The use of VA therapy resources |
Keywords | Experiment PTSD Healthcare Experimentation Distributed Information Technology Systems Design |
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