Fifty years of operational research applied to healthcare

Jeroen Beliën, Sally Brailsford, Erik Demeulemeester, Derya Demirtas, Erwin W. Hans and Paul Harper

European Journal of Operational Research, 2025, vol. 326, issue 2, 189-206

Abstract: This paper gives an overview of five decades of operational research applied to healthcare, structured along nine key application domains: personnel scheduling, blood supply chain management, cancer diagnosis and treatment, emergency medical response and disaster relief, infectious diseases, long-term conditions, diagnostic imaging, public health, and operating room scheduling. Each section summarises the main contributions, developments, recent trends and future research. The review focuses on the European context, which is dominated by public healthcare systems with its specific strengths and challenges.

Keywords: OR in health services; Human resource planning; Humanitarian logistics; Scheduling; Public health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.040

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