Health Care Management Science

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Volume 16, issue 1, 2013

Characteristics of service requests and service processes of fire and rescue service dispatch centers pp. 1-13

Ute Krueger and Katja Schimmelpfeng

Determining minimum staffing levels during snowstorms using an integrated simulation, regression, and reliability model pp. 14-26

Amber Kunkel and Laura McLay

Technical efficiency of Critical Access Hospitals: an application of the two-stage approach with double bootstrap pp. 27-36

Iustin Nedelea and James Fannin

Evaluating service quality dimensions as antecedents to outpatient satisfaction using back propagation neural network pp. 37-44

Daniela Carlucci, Paolo Renna and Giovanni Schiuma

A generic simulation model to assess the performance of sterilization services in health establishments pp. 45-61

Maria Di Mascolo and Alexia Gouin

Theory of constraints for publicly funded health systems pp. 62-74

Somayeh Sadat, Michael Carter and Brian Golden

Admission and capacity planning for the implementation of one-stop-shop in skin cancer treatment using simulation-based optimization pp. 75-86

H. Romero, N. Dellaert, S. Geer, M. Frunt, M. Jansen-Vullers and G. Krekels

Volume 15, issue 4, 2012

Simulation optimization of PSA-threshold based prostate cancer screening policies pp. 293-309

Daniel Underwood, Jingyu Zhang, Brian Denton, Nilay Shah and Brant Inman

Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization pp. 310-326

Oliver Tiemann and Jonas Schreyögg

Optimal incentives for allocating HIV/AIDS prevention resources among multiple populations pp. 327-338

Monali Malvankar-Mehta and Bin Xie

A multiple-drawer medication layout problem in automated dispensing cabinets pp. 339-354

Jennifer Pazour and Russell Meller

Decision support system for the operating room rescheduling problem pp. 355-372

J. Essen, Johann Hurink, Woutske Hartholt and Bernd Akker

Dynamics of the mental health workforce: investigating the composition of physicians and other health providers pp. 373-384

Theodore Stefos, James Burgess, Jeffrey Cohen, Laura Lehner and Eileen Moran

Modeling the demand for long-term care services under uncertain information pp. 385-412

Teresa Cardoso, Mónica Oliveira, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa and Stefan Nickel

Volume 15, issue 3, 2012

Special issue on global health pp. 171-174

Geoff Royston

Geographic prioritization of distributing pandemic influenza vaccines pp. 175-187

Ozgur Araz, Alison Galvani and Lauren Meyers

Determining the optimal vaccine vial size in developing countries: a Monte Carlo simulation approach pp. 188-196

Aswin Dhamodharan and Ruben Proano

How operational research influenced the scale up of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi pp. 197-205

Anthony Harries, Simon Makombe, Erik Schouten, Andreas Jahn, Edwin Libamba, Kelita Kamoto and Frank Chimbwandira

Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis pp. 206-222

Sérgio Pereira Santos, Carla Amado and Mauro Santos

A worldwide investigation of tuberculosis epidemics pp. 223-238

Christine Currie and Kathryn Hoad

Modelling the impacts of new diagnostic tools for tuberculosis in developing countries to enhance policy decisions pp. 239-253

Ivor Langley, Basra Doulla, Hsien-Ho Lin, Kerry Millington and Bertie Squire

Resource planning for ambulance services in mass casualty incidents: a DES-based policy model pp. 254-269

Marion Rauner, Michaela Schaffhauser-Linzatti and Helmut Niessner

Modelling human resources policies with Markov models: an illustration with the South African nursing labour market pp. 270-282

Mylene Lagarde and John Cairns

Public health systems analysis—the transfer of learning between developed and developing countries pp. 283-291

Colin Thunhurst

Volume 15, issue 2, 2012

A Markov decision model for determining optimal outpatient scheduling pp. 91-102

Jonathan Patrick

Presenting Germany’s drug pricing rule as a cost-per-QALY rule pp. 103-107

Afschin Gandjour

Modeling and analysis of work flow and staffing level in a computed tomography division of University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation pp. 108-120

Junwen Wang, Shichuan Quan, Jingshan Li and Amy Hollis

Determining population based mortality risk in the Department of Veterans Affairs pp. 121-137

Theodore Stefos, Laura Lehner, Marta Render, Eileen Moran and Peter Almenoff

Intensity modulated radiation therapy with field rotation—a time-varying fractionation study pp. 138-154

Delal Dink, Mark Langer, Ronald Rardin, Joseph Pekny, Gintaras Reklaitis and Behlul Saka

Modeling the impact of changing patient transportation systems on peri-operative process performance in a large hospital: insights from a computer simulation study pp. 155-169

Danny Segev, Retsef Levi, Peter Dunn and Warren Sandberg

Volume 15, issue 1, 2012

Improving patient flow in an obstetric unit pp. 1-14

Jacqueline Griffin, Shuangjun Xia, Siyang Peng and Pinar Keskinocak

Medicare managed care and primary care quality: examining racial/ethnic effects across states pp. 15-28

Jayasree Basu

The impact of hospital utilization on patient readmission rate pp. 29-36

David Anderson, Bruce Golden, Wolfgang Jank and Edward Wasil

U.S. hospital efficiency and adoption of health information technology pp. 37-47

Natalia Zhivan and Mark Diana

On the effect of prospective payment on local hospital competition in Germany pp. 48-62

Helmut Herwartz and Christoph Strumann

Modeling and simulation of blood collection systems pp. 63-78

Edgar Alfonso, Xiaolan Xie, Vincent Augusto and Olivier Garraud

Use of Self-Organizing Maps for Balanced Scorecard analysis to monitor the performance of dialysis clinic chains pp. 79-90

Isabella Cattinelli, Elena Bolzoni, Carlo Barbieri, Flavio Mari, José Martin-Guerrero, Emilio Soria-Olivas, José Martinez-Martinez, Juan Gomez-Sanchis, Claudia Amato, Andrea Stopper and Emanuele Gatti

Volume 14, issue 4, 2011

Spinned Poisson distribution with health management application pp. 299-306

Ramalingam Shanmugam

The agreement and internal consistency of national hospital EMR measures pp. 307-313

Abby Kazley, Mark Diana and Nir Menachemi

Communities of color? Client-to-client racial concordance in the selection of mental health programs for Caucasians and African Americans pp. 314-323

Naoru Koizumi, Aileen Rothbard, Tony Smith and Jeremy Mayer

Outcome based state budget allocation for diabetes prevention programs using multi-criteria optimization with robust weights pp. 324-337

Sanjay Mehrotra and Kibaek Kim

Examining the discharge practices of surgeons at a large medical center pp. 338-347

David Anderson, Carter Price, Bruce Golden, Wolfgang Jank and Edward Wasil

How to juggle priorities? An interactive tool to provide quantitative support for strategic patient-mix decisions: an ophthalmology case pp. 348-360

Paul Joustra, Jesse Wit, Nico Dijk and Piet Bakker

Optimal timing of joint replacement using mathematical programming and stochastic programming models pp. 361-369

Baruch Keren and Joseph Pliskin

How do strategic decisions and operative practices affect operating room productivity? pp. 370-382

Antti Peltokorpi

ORchestra: an online reference database of OR/MS literature in health care pp. 383-384

Peter Hulshof, Richard Boucherie, J. Essen, Erwin Hans, Johann Hurink, Nikky Kortbeek, Nelly Litvak, Peter Vanberkel, Egbert Veen, Bart Veltman, Ingrid Vliegen and Maartje Zonderland

Modeling and notation of DEA with strong and weak disposable outputs pp. 385-388

Ludwig Kuntz and Sandra Sülz

Response to modeling and notation of DEA with strong and weak disposable outputs pp. 389-390

Gary Ferrier, Michael Rosko and Vivian Valdmanis

Response to modeling and notation of DEA with strong and weak disposable outputs pp. 391-391

Jan Clement, Vivian Valdmanis, Gloria Bazzoli, Mei Zhao and Askar Chukmaitov

Acknowledgement of referees’ services pp. 392-395

Yasar Ozcan

Volume 14, issue 3, 2011

Editorial: IMA Health 2010 pp. 213-214

Christos Vasilakis, Thierry Chaussalet and Rose Baker

An operational research approach to identify cardiac surgery patients at risk of severe post-operative bleeding pp. 215-222

Brian Reddy, Christina Pagel, Alain Vuylsteke, Caroline Gerrard, Sam Nashef and Martin Utley

Using discrete event simulation to design a more efficient hospital pharmacy for outpatients pp. 223-236

Matthew Reynolds, Christos Vasilakis, Monsey McLeod, Nicholas Barber, Ann Mounsey, Sue Newton, Ann Jacklin and Bryony Franklin

Scheduling admissions and reducing variability in bed demand pp. 237-249

René Bekker and Paulien Koeleman

A technical note concerning emergency bed demand pp. 250-252

Steve Gallivan and Martin Utley

Modelling catchment areas for secondary care providers: a case study pp. 253-261

Simon Jones, Jessica Wardlaw, Susan Crouch and Michelle Carolan

Modelling to estimate future trends in cancer prevalence pp. 262-266

Francesca Fiorentino, Jacob Maddams, Henrik Møller and Martin Utley

The performance of automated case-mix adjustment regression model building methods in a health outcome prediction setting pp. 267-278

Min-Hua Jen, Alex Bottle, Graham Kirkwood, Ron Johnston and Paul Aylin

Costing hospital resources for stroke patients using phase-type models pp. 279-291

Jennifer Gillespie, Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney, Lalit Garg, Maria Barton and Ken Fullerton

Simulating waiting list management pp. 292-298

John Bowers

Volume 14, issue 2, 2011

Controlling for quality in the hospital cost function pp. 125-134

Kathleen Carey and Theodore Stefos

Using simulation modeling to improve patient flow at an outpatient orthopedic clinic pp. 135-145

Thomas Rohleder, Peter Lewkonia, Diane Bischak, Paul Duffy and Rosa Hendijani

A probabilistic model for predicting the probability of no-show in hospital appointments pp. 146-157

Adel Alaeddini, Kai Yang, Chandan Reddy and Susan Yu

Managing magnetic resonance imaging machines: support tools for scheduling and planning pp. 158-173

Adam Carpenter, Lawrence Leemis, Alan Papir, David Phillips and Grace Phillips

Inferring model parameters in network-based disease simulation pp. 174-188

Eva Enns and Margaret Brandeau

Long term staff scheduling of physicians with different experience levels in hospitals using column generation pp. 189-202

Jens Brunner and Günther Edenharter

Tumour doubling times and the length bias in breast cancer screening programmes pp. 203-211

Israel Vieira, Valter Senna, Paul Harper and Arjan Shahani

Volume 14, issue 1, 2011

Probability model for estimating colorectal polyp progression rates pp. 1-21

Chaitra Gopalappa, Selen Aydogan-Cremaschi, Tapas Das and Seza Orcun

Efficiency and quality of care in nursing homes: an Italian case study pp. 22-35

Giulia Garavaglia, Emanuele Lettieri, Tommaso Agasisti and Silvano Lopez

Time for a new budget allocation model for hospital care in Stockholm? pp. 36-55

Per-Åke Andersson, Daniel Bruce, Anders Walander and Inga Viberg

An open source software project for obstetrical procedure scheduling and occupancy analysis pp. 56-73

Mark Isken, Timothy Ward and Steven Littig

An optimal decision making model for supporting week hospital management pp. 74-88

Domenico Conforti, Francesca Guerriero, Rosita Guido, Marco Cerinic and Maria Conforti

Operational research in the management of the operating theatre: a survey pp. 89-114

Francesca Guerriero and Rosita Guido

A model for allocating CDC’s HIV prevention resources in the United States pp. 115-124

Arielle Lasry, Stephanie Sansom, Katherine Hicks and Vladislav Uzunangelov