Thais Spiegel

Thais SpiegelThais Spiegel is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department of Rio de Janeiro State University. Her research interests include operations management and design, process modeling, decision making, logistic and supply chain management. The author is pioneer in the convergence of cognitive sciences and industrial engineering in Brazil. She works on the premise that, in order for decision-making to be understood “completely” and improved, the underlying cognitive processes must be examined. It thus sets out to identify how decision-making is shaped by the cognitive processes of the agents involved.

Publications

Fast Track to Reduce Patient Lead Time: A Discrete Event Simulation Analysis
Fast Track to Reduce Patient Lead Time: A Discrete Event Simulation Analysis
Thais Gabriel Pincigher Silva, Carolina Mendes e Senna de Castro, Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad, Ana Carolina Vasconcelos, Thais Spiegel. © 2020. 23 pages.
Patient lead time in emergency units is a critical factor for quality of care and patient safety. The objective of the chapter is a public emergency care hospital of a Brazilian...
Operations Project and Management in Trauma Centers: The Case of Brazilian Units
Operations Project and Management in Trauma Centers: The Case of Brazilian Units
Thais Spiegel, Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad. © 2020. 16 pages.
Topic of discussions over the last decades, the literature related to the care of patients suffering from poly-trauma, under the assistance point of view, is sufficiently...
Cognitive Process Elements of People Decision-Making
Cognitive Process Elements of People Decision-Making
Thais Spiegel. © 2019. 10 pages.
The ability to make choices is regarded as essential to human action and to modern life, individually, collectively, and in the corporate context, and is crucial to the concept...
Cognitive Process Elements of People Decision-Making
Cognitive Process Elements of People Decision-Making
Thais Spiegel. © 2018. 9 pages.
Improve Center of Sterilized Material Performance: A Discrete Event Simulation Model
Improve Center of Sterilized Material Performance: A Discrete Event Simulation Model
Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad, Thais Spiegel, Ana Carolina Pereira de Vasconcelos Silva. © 2018. 27 pages.
The health sector in Brazil faces difficulties related mainly to financial, administrative, and organizational structure. Center of Sterilized Material (CSM) provide material for...
Capacity Decision in Emergency Hospital Operation Rooms: Sizing Using Simulation
Capacity Decision in Emergency Hospital Operation Rooms: Sizing Using Simulation
Ana Carolina Pereira de Vasconcelos Silva, Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad, Thais Spiegel. © 2018. 16 pages.
The operations management is a multidisciplinary field that investigates, for instance, the design, management and processes improvement focused on the development, production...
Healthcare Professionals' Decision Making in Emergency Units: An Operation Impact Analysis Considering Their Cognitive Heuristics
Healthcare Professionals' Decision Making in Emergency Units: An Operation Impact Analysis Considering Their Cognitive Heuristics
Ana Carolina Pereira de Vasconcelos Silva, Thais Spiegel, Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad. © 2018. 15 pages.
Cognitive theories on decision making show that individuals often do not decide in a full and rational way; they instead use cognitive strategies that allow them to overcome the...
Decision-Making Cognitive Process: Let's not Forget That Healthcare Professionals are Human
Decision-Making Cognitive Process: Let's not Forget That Healthcare Professionals are Human
Thais Spiegel, Ana Carolina P V Silva. © 2018. 12 pages.
In the study of decision-making, the classical view of behavioral appropriateness or rationality was challenged by neuro and psychological reasons. The “bounded rationality”...
Operations Project and Management in Trauma Centers: The Case of Brazilian Units
Operations Project and Management in Trauma Centers: The Case of Brazilian Units
Thais Spiegel, Daniel Bouzon Nagem Assad. © 2017. 16 pages.
Topic of discussions over the last decades, the literature related to the care of patients suffering from poly-trauma, under the assistance point of view, is sufficiently...
Influences of Personal Experience in Decision-Making
Influences of Personal Experience in Decision-Making
Thais Spiegel. © 2017. 22 pages.
Among the aspects that conform the human cognition and therefore, the behavior observed in the choices, there is the individual experience. Researches point the experience...