November 2011′s Hot Topic is Operations Management in Spinal Cord Injuries
This topic compliment’s the upcoming Centre for Health Care Management seminar on . To learn more about the seminar or to register visit the information page.
The following articles were carefully selected by Dr. Vanessa Noonan and the READ Portal librarian as introductory readings to the topic. While most of these resources are open access, some may require a subscription. If you need help getting access to an item, please contact your institution’s library or email librarian@chcm.ubc.ca for access.
- Rick Hansen Institute. (2010). the Incidence and Prevalence of Spinal Cord Injury in Canada. Vancouver, BC: Farry A, Baxter D. Available from: http://www.rickhanseninstitute.org/en/publications-and-resources.
- Journal of Neurotrauma, 28(8). Available online at http://www.liebertonline.com/toc/neu/28/8.
This special issue of the Journal of Neurotrauma summarizes the current evidence in Spinal Cord Injury.
Other examples of Operations Research in health care:
- Olivotto, I., French, J., & Werker, G. (2011). Operations Research Offers Solution to Staff Scheduling Challenges at BC Cancer Agency. UBC Centre for Health Care Management. Available at http://chcm.ubc.ca/2011/08/23/bc-cancer-agency/.
- Sauder School of Business. (2011). Innovative Sauder-BC Cancer Agency System Reduces Waitlisting for Chemotherapy. Available from http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Home/News/Feature_Stories/Sauder-BC_Cancer_Agency_system_reduces_waitlisting_for_chemotherapy
