Article ID: | iaor20052644 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 63 |
End Page Number: | 71 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
Journal: | Health Care Management Science |
Authors: | Heidenberger Kurt, Stummer Christian, Doerner Karl, Focke Axel |
Keywords: | location, decision theory: multiple criteria, heuristics |
Decisions on the location and size of medical departments in a given hospital network are prime examples of priority setting in health care, which is an issue of growing political importance. As such decisions are regularly characterized by multiple and often conflicting objectives in real-life, this paper integrates the fields of hospital planning and multiobjective decision support. The proposed two-phase solution procedure for our corresponding mathematical programming model does not require