Systems Engineering to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care in the Military Health System: Workshop Summary

✍ Scribed by Workshop Steering Commitee on Systems Engineering Health Care: Tools and Technologies to Maximize the Effectiveness of medical Mission Support to DOD

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book makes a strong case for taking advantage of the best of two disciplines - health care and operational systems engineering (a combination of science and mathematics to describe, analyze, plan, design, and integrate systems with complex interactions among people, processes, materials, equipment, and facilities) - to improve the efficiency and quality of health care delivery, as well as health care outcomes. Those most interested in pursuing this approach include leaders in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs, who are committed to finding ways of improving the quality of care for military personnel, veterans, and their families. Intrigued by the possibilities, DOD decided to sponsor a series of workshops to explore the potential of operational systems engineering principals and tools for military health care, beginning with the diagnosis and care of traumatic brain injury (TBI), one of the most prevalent, difficult and challenging injuries suffered by warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

✦ Table of Contents

FrontMatter......Page 2
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
Acronyms/Abbreviations......Page 18
Summary......Page 22
1 Introduction......Page 32
2 Medical Aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury--Robert Labutta......Page 42
3 Traumatic Brain Injury and the Military Health System--Michael S. Jaffee......Page 52
4 Examples of Operational Systems Engineering Applications Relevant to Traumatic Brain Injury Care--William P. Pierskalla......Page 70
5 Case Study Vanderbilt’s Journey Toward System-Supported Practice--William W. Stead......Page 90
6 Suggestions for Analysis Plans by Working Groups......Page 102
Appendix A: Biographical Information......Page 142
Appendix B: Issues Raised by Stakeholders about the Military Care of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury......Page 156
Appendix C: Operational Systems Engineering Applications Based on Issues Raised by TBI Stakeholders......Page 162
Appendix D: National Academy of Engineering/Institute of Medicine Preliminary Information-Gathering Meeting: TBI Care System Mapping......Page 168
Appendix E: Workshop Agenda......Page 174
Appendix F: Workshop Attendees......Page 180
Appendix G: Working Groups......Page 188
Appendix H: Definitions and Examples of Operational Systems Engineering Tools and Concepts......Page 190