Paolo Landa
Institute of Health Research, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter (UK)

Abstract:

In recent years, the introduction of clinical pathways has created a particular innovation in patient management. Clinical pathway is a clinical governance tool centred on the value process creation from the patient’s viewpoint, which is particularly suitable for describing the production of health services because it considers the clinicians’ viewpoint (compliance with guidelines and scientific evidence) as well as the healthcare managers’ one (cost control through an efficient resource management). The benefits of clinical pathways are well described by a wide clinical literature, while from an organizational viewpoint, there are few studies that allow applying clinical pathways to the current operational situations within the healthcare facilities where different pathways compete. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how operational research, and more specifically simulation models, represents a methodological approach that can ensure the compatibility of an organization based on clinical pathways and the development of the best conditions to meet the two major stakeholders: citizens/patients and healthcare authorities. Some examples are shown from a set of applications carried out in collaboration with an Italian hospital department of surgery and a local healthcare government.

Dr Paolo Landa works as Research Fellow in Health Economics and operational modelling at the College of Medicine and Health of the University of Exeter (UK).
Dr Landa has a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and quantitative methods and has a BSC and MSc (Laurea) Maritime and Logistics Economics, both at the University of Genoa (Italy).
He was visiting student and research assistant in 2011 and 2012 respectively, at HEC Business School of Montréal (Canada) supervised by Prof Patrick Soriano (Department of Decision Sciences).
Dr Landa has a background in Operations Research Applied to Health Care, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment. His current work focuses on Understanding the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and current use of cancer diagnostic tools to aid decision-making in primary care, the development of whole disease model for prostate cancer and the cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve the wellbeing of patients after stroke.
His previous research projects aimed at evaluating the reorganization of the Neonatal Care Network in England, the cost-effectiveness and outcome evaluation of Rehabilitation Training after stroke and simulation modelling for HTA and Health care organizations.
During his period in Italy he was as a data manager and business Intelligence analyst working for a hospital and local health care agency in Genoa. He worked with the Health Economics and Operational Research Group led by Prof Angela Testi and Dr Elena Tanfani in the Department of Economics and Business studies of the University of Genoa, where he followed several research projects on Operating Room optimization and Patient flow optimisation through simulation modelling.

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