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Modelling in Healthcare
Share this pageThe Complex Systems Modelling Group (CSMG), The IRMACS Center, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
This volume is both a broad overview of how modelling works
and a practical and usable introduction to the styles of modelling
most applicable to healthcare.
An introductory section covers the basics of modelling, explaining
how to select, build, and implement a model, along with an overview of
data collection and statistical analysis. The heart of the book is a
series of self-contained chapters covering different styles of
modelling applicable to healthcare, each with an overview, a list of
common uses, mathematical details, examples, and related
reading. Readers can quickly scan the model overview and common uses
sections to determine if a model is applicable to the problem that
they are interested in and can study the mathematical details and
examples sections if more detail is desired.
Requiring no more than a solid high school level of mathematics,
this book is an ideal stepping stone for those new to the subject and
a valuable reference guide for those with more experience.
Readership
Anyone interested in mathematics and healthcare.
Reviews & Endorsements
A highly useful, readable, complete overview of modelling in healthcare that translate[s] complex questions into elegant, clearly stated models with real world applications that optimally balance the competing needs for simplicity and applicability . . . [T]he book . . . is accessible to those with a rudimentary knowledge, albeit strong interest in statistics and mathematics. All formulas are explained in commonly used language and the book consistently serves healthcare policymakers by providing them with a high-level understanding of how, when, and under what circumstances to apply modelling techniques and serves modellers with an appreciation of the non-mathematical realities of the healthcare world in which people do not consistently behave as rational economic beings . . . Beyond its use as a textbook, this book is a very useful reference for all healthcare researchers . . . The book is very current . . . [and] the organization . . . is extremely user-friendly . . . As the quest to understand the dynamics of any healthcare system becomes more intense, this book is a "must-read" for those who are convinced that the usual and customary explanations are no longer sufficient platforms for policy formation.
-- Judith Bentkover, Brown University
The book's novel structure made it a fun read, and I enjoyed it from cover to cover.
-- MAA Reviews
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Modelling in Healthcare
- Cover Cover11 free
- Title page iii4 free
- Contents v6 free
- Preface ix10 free
- Acknowledgments xi12 free
- Complex systems modelling group xiii14 free
- List of figures xv16 free
- List of tables xvii18 free
- Part I. Modelling in healthcare 120 free
- The whys, whats, and whens of modelling in healthcare 322
- How to use this book 726
- The modelling process 1130
- Part II. Data collection and statistical models 2342
- Issues of data 2544
- The basics 3352
- Predictions and responses 4968
- Evaluating detrimental behaviour 6584
- Adjusting risky behaviour 81100
- Part III. Model design and interpretation 91110
- Issues in mathematical modelling 93112
- Explaining irrational behaviour 101120
- Modelling optimal behaviour 113132
- Modelling social interaction 125144
- The future starts now 135154
- Viewing the system as a whole 151170
- Dealing with lines and capacity 165184
- Finding the "best" intervention 181200
- Computer programming packages useful in modelling 197216
- Bibliography 205224
- Index 215234 free
- Back Cover Back Cover1238