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Research

Research lines

  • Hospital bed management

    Strategies to admit, discharge and reconfigure beds, and a conceptual framework to model them.

  • Patient flow simulation

    Discrete event simulation of inpatient units and the validation of the models.

  • Surgical blocks

    Capacity management of surgical blocks and digital twins of a sterilisation centre.

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Conference papers

Aparisi-Torrijo, S., Estellés-Miguel, S., Lacort, A., & Esteban-Amaro, R. (2026). Autoliderazgo en enfermería: Una perspectiva multinivel sobre el compromiso laboral y la eficacia en organizaciones sanitarias. XL AEDEM International Annual Meeting.

A multilevel study of nursing self-leadership, work engagement and effectiveness in healthcare organisations.

  • Nursing
  • Leadership
Lacort, A., Gómez Navarro, P., Maheut, J., & Lahrichi, N. (2025a). Gestión de la capacidad de los bloques quirúrgicos: Perspectivas de una revisión. In G. Ribes Giner & S. Estellés Miguel (Eds.), IV simposio predoctoral del departamento de organización de empresas UPV. Departamento de Organización de Empresas, Universitat Politècnica de València.

A review of how the capacity of surgical blocks is managed.

  • Hospital
  • Surgical block
Lacort, A., Maheut, J., & Lahrichi, N. (2025). Discrete event simulation for hospital inpatient flow modelling: A review of validation methods. In R. Carrasco-Gallego, J. Moreno-Serna, M. Gutierrez, & C. Avilés-Palacios (Eds.), Organizational engineering, coping with complexity (pp. 663–668). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82334-3_115

Review of 15 discrete event simulation studies of inpatient flow: face validation is the most used technique.

  • Hospital
  • Discrete event simulation
  • Inpatient flow
  • Validation
Lacort, A., Maheut, J., & Lahrichi, N. (2024). Insights from a review of hospital bed management modelling. III Simposio Predoctoral Del Departamento de Organización de Empresas UPV.

A review of hospital bed management strategies and of what must be considered to model them.

  • Hospital
  • Bed management
Lacort, A., & Lahrichi, N. (2022a). Simulation of patient flow considering bed management in a university hospital. I Simposio Predoctoral Del Departamento de Organización de Empresas UPV.

Paper on patient flow simulation and bed management in a university hospital.

  • Hospital
  • Bed management
  • Patient flow

Book chapters

Lacort, A., Lahrichi, N., & Maheut, J. (2025). Hospital bed management modelling: A conceptual framework. In A. A. Juan, J. Faulin, & D. Lopez-Lopez (Eds.), Decision sciences (Vol. 14779, pp. 172–180). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78241-1_16

Conceptual framework of the physical operations and decisions of bed management: blocking, deferring or diverting admissions, reconfiguring beds and expediting discharges.

  • Hospital
  • Bed management
  • Conceptual framework
  • Patient flow

Talks

Lacort, A. (2026). Academic writing with agentic AI: A context-engineering workflow for conference contributions [Conference presentation]. 4th conference in business research & management: The AI era, València, España.

A context-engineering workflow to write conference contributions with agentic AI.

  • Academic writing
  • Artificial intelligence
Lacort, A., Gómez Navarro, P., Maheut, J., & Lahrichi, N. (2025b). Surgical block capacity management: Insights from a review [Extended abstract]. IV simposio predoctoral del departamento de organización de empresas UPV, València, España.

Extended abstract of the review on the capacity management of surgical blocks.

  • Hospital
  • Surgical block
Lacort, A. (2024). Hospital bed management strategies [Conference presentation]. IX encuentro de estudiantes de doctorado de la universitat politècnica de valència, Valencia, España.

Talk on hospital bed management strategies.

  • Hospital
  • Bed management
Lacort, A., & Lahrichi, N. (2022b). Simulation of patient flow considering bed management in a university hospital [Conference presentation]. Journées de l’optimisation 2022, HEC Montréal, Canadá.

Simulation of patient flow considering bed management in a university hospital.

  • Hospital
  • Bed management
  • Patient flow

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