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| SYON5003 | Quantitative Techniques in Health Institutions | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | HEALTH ADMINISTRATION | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Sedat BOSTAN | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The main purpose of this course to teach decision support systems and mathematical optimization models needed by health institutions managers to efficiently utilize time and resource limitations within the context of definition, concepts and methods of operations research and management science. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Know statistical, industrial engineering, direction action research and scientific research techniques used in modeling and solving decision-making problems. | 3 | 1, | | PO - 2 : | Know productivity and efficiency measurement methods in health institutions. | 3 | 1, | | PO - 3 : | Perform performance measurement and evaluation in health institutions. | 3 | 1, | | PO - 4 : | Apply patient and personnel planning techniques | | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Definition of management science, introduction of quantitative decision making techniques. İts scope characteristics, and methods historical development main terms and concepts, modelling of decision making and problem solving in health services organizations, location planning and multi attribute decision making , lay out decisions of health services facilities, health care performance & efficiency measurement, reenginering: design of work systems; work measurement and work simplification techniques. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Definition of management science, introduction of quantitative decision making techniques | | | Week 2 | Modelling of decision making and problem solving in health services organizations | | | Week 3 | Feasibility study, facility location planning and multi attribute decision making | | | Week 4 | Layout decisions of health services facilities | | | Week 5 | Health care performance assessment | | | Week 6 | Health care productivity & efficiency measurement | | | Week 7 | Re-enginering: design of work systems; work measurement and work simplification techniques. | | | Week 8 | Staffing and patient scheduling decisions | | | Week 9 | Mid Term Exam | | | Week 10 | Queuning models and simulation | | | Week 11 | Forecasting techniques for health facilities | | | Week 12 | Capacity resource allocation decisions and linear programming models | | | Week 13 | Inventory management and just in time inventory | | | Week 14 | Project management in health services facilities | | | Week 15 | Measuring and controlling health services quality | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Özcan, Y., (2005) Quantitative Methods in Health Care Management. Techniques and Applications. Jossey Bass Inc. USA. | | | |
| 1 | Sarıaslan, H., (1990) Doğrusal Programlama, Turhan Kitabevi. Ankara | | | 2 | Stevenson, W.L., (2005) Production/Operations Management. ISBN (0-256-19723-7) Irvin Inc. USA | | | 3 | Nelson, C.W. (1982) Operations Management in Health Services. North Holland: New York | | | 4 | Warner, D.M., Holloway, Grazier, K.L., (1984) Decision Making and Control for Health Administration. The Management of Quantitative Analysis. Second Edition. Health Administration Press. | | | 5 | Seidel, L.F., Robin, D.G., James B.L., (1995) Applied Quantitatives Methods for Health Services Management, Baltimore, MD. | | | 6 | Düzakın. E., ( 2005) İşletme Yöneticileri için Excel ile Sayısal Karar Verme Teknikleri Kare Yayınları. | | | 7 | Austin J.C., (1995) Quantitative Analysis for Health Services Administration AUPHA/HAD Pres. Ann Arbor, Michigan. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 14 | | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 8 | 24 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 6 | 24 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 190 |
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