2020-2021 Senior Honors Theses
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Item A Comprehensive Analysis of Covid-19’s Impact On Food Supply Chains(2021-05) Patel, ShivaniThe Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic’s influence on the food supply chain was felt by all stakeholders in the food supply chain, including consumers, retailers, distributors, industrial suppliers, processors, agriculture producers, workers, and governmental agencies. This paper aims to utilize COVID-19’s impact to analyze the food supply chain's key components and determine strategies the private and public sector can use to support food supply chain stability. This paper is an intensive literature review and analysis ofCOVID-19’s impact on the food supply chain. In summary, this paper shows that the food supply chain proved resilient to COVID-19 related disruptions, but several improvements to food supply chain operations are warranted to ensure future healthcare, or other types of disruptions, can be more effectively mediated.Item An Improvement for the Pharmaceutical Value Chain: Using Lean Methodologies to Create a Patient-Centered Supply Chain(2021-05) Farooqui, SalmanThe pharmaceutical supply chain and medication-use process function to deliver medications to the right patients at the right time. Together, these two segments form the pharmaceutical value chain. The processes of the pharmaceutical value chain have become more complex, with new technology, new types of therapeutics, changing supply chain designs, and stringent government regulations. However, these changes also offer many opportunities for pharmaceutical value chains to increase value for patients. Value is a function of quality, service, and cost; every organization in the pharmaceutical value chain impacts these three variables. The most important variable is quality, since a lack of quality could translate to a medication error that could cause the patient an adverse drug event. To reduce medication errors and resultant adverse drug events, pharmaceutical value chain organizations must consider process improvements with the goal of maximizing value for the patient. Lean methodologies and tools provide an improvement framework that can help achieve greater value. This includes concepts such as continuous, incremental improvement, multi-level employee involvement, experimental thinking, standardization of processes, and error-proofing.Item Using Twitter Data to Examine Compassion Fatigue In Frontline Healthcare Workers Before and After the Onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic(2021-05) Ranadeeve, SangeethaOver the course of the coronavirus disease-COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1,500 frontline healthcare workers have died. Coupled with these death rates came a healthcare worker-mental health crisis. This research aims to understand how public discourse of healthcare worker-related compassion fatigue on Twitter has changed pre- and post- the onset of COVID-19. This was done by sourcing tweets related to compassion fatigue using the Twitter API v2.0, cleaning and filtering the tweets to ensure relevancy and understanding, and performing Wilcoxon signed-rank t-test on the tweets. Results showed a significant difference in healthcare worker-related compassion fatigue tweets after the beginning of the pandemic when compared to before. There was a significant difference in tweets with the terms compassion fatigue, emotional exhaustion, moral distress, moral injury, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious traumatization. The difference in compassion fatigue-related tweets can be attributed to increased media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. The difference in tweets was likely a reflection of the increasing burden on frontline healthcare workers from increasing COVID-19 case rates, personal protective equipment shortages, and overflow of healthcare facilities with COVID-19 patients.