Health and Social Care Modelling
Group leader
Prof Thierry Chaussalet
T: +44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext 3540
E: chausst@westminster.ac.uk
Interest and expertise
The group strength and experience lies in healthcare modelling and simulation with applications to accident and emergency, neonatal services, geriatric services, long-term care, and diagnostic systems.
Decision support tools have been developed to monitor clinical performance, to estimate cost and length of stay in long-term care, and to model bed occupancy and length of stay, using techniques such as phase-type distributions and queuing networks. There is also a growing interest in data mining with current initiatives looking at clustering and classification of patients according to similar resource consumption and grouping of hospitals / healthcare units for performance analysis.
Current and recent projects
- A software tool for Forecasting Length Of Stay and Cost of known commitments at local authority level (FLOSC)
Department of Health, 7,470, Jun 2007 - Jul 2007
- Identification and structuring of transferable knowledge, capability and technology useful for planning and managing health and social care systems and promotion of knowledge transfer
Westfocus/HEFCE, 22,000, Oct 2005 - Jul 2006 - Development of a computer modelling and simulation toolkit to enable rapid development of models of healthcare processes to advise health care organisations on optimal care provision and delivery
DTI and RKW, 110,000, Jun 2004 - Jun 2006 - Development of clinical performance monitoring systems
DTI and Dendrite Clinical Systems, 115,000, Sep 2003 - Aug 2005 - Decision support tool for forecasting and planning resource use in long-term care for elderly people
EPSRC, 105,000, Sep 2002 - Aug 2004.
Selected publications
XIE, H., CHAUSSALET, T.J., THOMPSON, W.A. AND MILLARD, P.H. (2007) A simple graphical decision aid for the placement of elderly people in long-term care. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 58: 446453.
CHAUSSALET, T.J., XIE, H. and MILLARD, P.H. (2006) A closed queueing network approach to the analysis of patient flow in health care systems. Methods of Information in Medicine, 45: 492-497.
XIE, H., CHAUSSALET, T.J., TOFFA, S. and CROWTHER, P. (2006) A Software Tool to Aid Budget Planning for Long-Term Care at Local Authority Level. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 75: 664-670.
REES, M. AND DINESCHANDRA, J. (2005) Monitoring Clinical Performance: The Role of Software Architecture. Health Care Management Science. 8: 197-203.
XIE, H., CHAUSSALET, T.J. AND MILLARD, P.H. (2005) Continuous-time markov models for the flow of elderly people in institutional long-term care. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. 168:5161.
More information
Visit www.healthcareinformatics.org.uk or contact:
Professor Thierry Chaussalet
Health and Social Care Modelling Group (HSCMG)
School of Electronics and Computer Science
Department of Information Systems and Computing
115 New Cavendish St
London W1W 6UW
T: +44 (0) 20 7911 5000
E: chausst@westminster.ac.uk
