Token Economy-Based Hospital Bed Allocation to Mitigate Information Asymmetry: Proof-of-Concept Study Through Simulation Implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital bed management is an important resource allocation task in hospital management, but currently, it is a challenging task. However, acquiring an optimal solution is also difficult because intraorganizational information asymmetry exists. Signaling, as defined in the fields of economics, can be used to mitigate this problem.

Objective

We aimed to develop an assignment process that is based on a token economy as signaling intermediary.

Methods

We implemented a game-like simulation, representing token economy-based bed assignments, in which 3 players act as ward managers of 3 inpatient wards (1 each). As a preliminary evaluation, we recruited 9 nurse managers to play and then participate in a survey about qualitative perceptions for current and proposed

SUBMITTER: Hiragi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8933802 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature