Health Care Management Science

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Volume 25, issue 4, 2022

Supporting COVID-19 elective recovery through scalable wait list modelling: Specialty-level application to all hospitals in England pp. 521-525

Richard M Wood

On the use of partitioning for scheduling of surgeries in the inpatient surgical department pp. 526-550

Lien Wang, Erik Demeulemeester, Nancy Vansteenkiste and Frank E. Rademakers

A tactical multi-week implicit tour scheduling model with applications in healthcare pp. 551-573

Mark W. Isken and Osman T. Aydas

Unsupervised learning methods for efficient geographic clustering and identification of disease disparities with applications to county-level colorectal cancer incidence in California pp. 574-589

Mallory E. McMahon, Lyubov Doroshenko, Javad Roostaei, Hyunsoon Cho and Mansoor A. Haider

Inverse optimization on hierarchical networks: an application to breast cancer clinical pathways pp. 590-622

Timothy C. Y. Chan, Katharina Forster, Steven Habbous, Claire Holloway, Luciano Ieraci, Yusuf Shalaby and Nasrin Yousefi

The influence of service quality and anticipated emotions on donor loyalty: an empirical analysis in blood centres in Spain pp. 623-648

Josefa D. Martín-Santana and Lucía Melián-Alzola

Aiding the prescriber: developing a machine learning approach to personalized risk modeling for chronic opioid therapy amongst US Army soldiers pp. 649-665

Margrét Vilborg Bjarnadóttir, David B. Anderson, Ritu Agarwal and D. Alan Nelson

A clinical decision-support system for dengue based on fuzzy cognitive maps pp. 666-681

William Hoyos, Jose Aguilar and Mauricio Toro

Quantile regression forests for individualized surgery scheduling pp. 682-709

Arlen Dean, Amirhossein Meisami, Henry Lam, Mark P. Van Oyen, Christopher Stromblad and Nick Kastango

Incorporating medication therapy management into community pharmacy workflows pp. 710-724

Yucheng Chen, Stephanie A. Gernant, Charlie M. Upton and Manuel A. Nunez

Country versus pharmaceutical company interests for hepatitis C treatment pp. 725-749

Roy Lothan, Noa Gutman and Dan Yamin

Volume 25, issue 3, 2022

Covid-19 infection risk on US domestic airlines pp. 347-362

Arnold Barnett and Keith Fleming

Optimal breast cancer risk reduction policies tailored to personal risk level pp. 363-388

Mehmet A. Ergun, Ali Hajjar, Oguzhan Alagoz and Murtuza Rampurwala

On the timing and probability of Presurgical Teledermatology: how it becomes the dominant strategy pp. 389-405

Felipa De Mello-Sampayo

Homogeneity and Best Practice Analyses in Hospital Performance Management: An Analytical Framework pp. 406-425

Mansour Zarrin, Jan Schoenfelder and Jens O. Brunner

A dynamic sequential decision-making model on MRI real-time scheduling with simulation-based optimization pp. 426-440

Bowen Pang, Xiaolei Xie, Feng Ju and James Pipe

A multi-product multi-period stochastic model for a blood supply chain considering blood substitution and demand uncertainty pp. 441-459

Yuan Xu and Joseph Szmerekovsky

What is the value of explicit priority setting for health interventions? A simulation study pp. 460-483

Euan Barlow, Alec Morton, Saudamini Dabak, Sven Engels, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Yot Teerawattananon and Kalipso Chalkidou

Non-linear missing data imputation for healthcare data via index-aware autoencoders pp. 484-497

Sadaf Kabir and Leily Farrokhvar

Beyond patient-sharing: Comparing physician- and patient-induced networks pp. 498-514

Eva Kesternich and Olaf Rank

Excess deaths by sex and Age Group in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States pp. 515-520

Ian G. Ludden, Sheldon H. Jacobson and Janet A. Jokela

Volume 25, issue 2, 2022

Towards a more efficient healthcare system: Opportunities and challenges caused by hospital closures amid the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 187-190

Soroush Saghafian, Lina D. Song and Ali S. Raja

A two-phase approach for the Radiotherapy Scheduling Problem pp. 191-207

Tu-San Pham, Louis-Martin Rousseau and Patrick Causmaecker

Decision support algorithms for optimizing surgery start times considering the performance variation pp. 208-221

Shing Chih Tsai, Wu Hung Lin, Chia Cheng Wu, Shao Jen Weng and Ching Fen Tang

The importance of peer imitation on smoking initiation over time: a dynamical systems approach pp. 222-236

Carl Simon and David Mendez

Hospital volume allocation: integrating decision maker and patient perspectives pp. 237-252

Elisabetta Listorti, Arianna Alfieri and Erica Pastore

A quantitative analysis of risk-sharing agreements with patient support programs for improving medication adherence pp. 253-274

Hui Zhang, Tao Huang and Tao Yan

Bayesian prediction of emergency department wait time pp. 275-290

Mani Suleiman, Haydar Demirhan, Leanne Boyd, Federico Girosi and Vural Aksakalli

Locating trauma centers considering patient safety pp. 291-310

Sagarkumar Hirpara, Monit Vaishnav, Pratik J. Parikh, Nan Kong and Priti Parikh

Balancing control and autonomy in master surgery scheduling: Benefits of ICU quotas for recovery units pp. 311-332

Steffen Heider, Jan Schoenfelder, Thomas Koperna and Jens O. Brunner

Data envelopment analysis efficiency in the public sector using provider and customer opinion: An application to the Spanish health system pp. 333-346

Jesús A. Tapia and Bonifacio Salvador

Volume 25, issue 1, 2022

Optimizing diabetes screening frequencies for at-risk groups pp. 1-23

Chou-Chun Wu and Sze-chuan Suen

Stroke care networks and the impact on quality of care pp. 24-41

Jan Schoenfelder, Mansour Zarrin, Remo Griesbaum and Ansgar Berlis

Enhanced coverage by integrating site interdependencies in capacitated EMS location models pp. 42-62

Matthias Grot, Tristan Becker, Pia Mareike Steenweg and Brigitte Werners

A two-stage robust optimization approach for the master surgical schedule problem under uncertainty considering downstream resources pp. 63-88

Salma Makboul, Said Kharraja, Abderrahman Abbassi and Ahmed El Hilali Alaoui

Prospective adverse event risk evaluation in clinical trials pp. 89-99

Abhishake Kundu, Felipe Feijoo, Diego A. Martinez, Manuel Hermosilla and Timothy Matis

The Waiting Game – How Cooperation Between Public and Private Hospitals Can Help Reduce Waiting Lists pp. 100-125

Jorge A. Acuna, José L. Zayas-Castro, Felipe Feijoo, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Rodrigo Martinez and Diego A. Martinez

Point-of-use hospital inventory management with inaccurate usage capture pp. 126-145

Benjamin V. Neve and Charles P. Schmidt

The effect of correlation and false negatives in pool testing strategies for COVID-19 pp. 146-165

Leonardo J. Basso, Vicente Salinas, Denis Sauré, Charles Thraves and Natalia Yankovic

Bibliometric analysis of cancer care operations management: current status, developments, and future directions pp. 166-185

Majed Hadid, Adel Elomri, Tarek Mekkawy, Laoucine Kerbache, Abdelfatteh Omri, Halima Omri, Ruba Y. Taha, Anas Ahmad Hamad and Mohammed Hamad J. Thani

Volume 24, issue 4, 2021

Beyond COVID-19 deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States pp. 661-665

Sheldon H. Jacobson and Janet A. Jokela

Managing admission and discharge processes in intensive care units pp. 666-685

Jie Bai, Andreas Fügener, Jochen Gönsch, Jens O. Brunner and Manfred Blobner

Predicting rapid progression phases in glaucoma using a soft voting ensemble classifier exploiting Kalman filtering pp. 686-701

Isaac A. Jones, Mark P. Van Oyen, Mariel S. Lavieri, Christopher A. Andrews and Joshua D. Stein

How hospitals can improve their public quality metrics: a decision-theoretic model pp. 702-715

Christian Wernz, Yongjia Song and Danny Hughes

Leveraging electronic health record data to inform hospital resource management pp. 716-741

José Carlos Ferrão, Monica Oliveira, Daniel Gartner, Filipe Janela and Henrique M. G. Martins

Managing capacity for virtual and office appointments in chronic care pp. 742-767

Xiao Yu and Armagan Bayram

An integrated quality and resilience engineering framework in healthcare with Z-number data envelopment analysis pp. 768-785

Madjid Tavana, Salman Nazari-Shirkouhi and Hamidreza Farzaneh Kholghabad

Identification of predictors and model for predicting prolonged length of stay in dengue patients pp. 786-798

Md. Ansari, Dinesh Jain, Haripriya Harikumar, Santu Rana, Sunil Gupta, Sandeep Budhiraja and Svetha Venkatesh

Patients, primary care, and policy: Agent-based simulation modeling for health care decision support pp. 799-826

Martin Comis, Catherine Cleophas and Christina Büsing

Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans pp. 827-844

Adam Diamant

Volume 24, issue 3, 2021

Transforming COVID-19 vaccines into vaccination pp. 455-459

Tinglong Dai and Jing-Sheng Song

Stochastic programming for outpatient scheduling with flexible inpatient exam accommodation pp. 460-481

Yifei Sun, Usha Nandini Raghavan, Vikrant Vaze, Christopher S Hall, Patricia Doyle, Stacey Sullivan Richard and Christoph Wald

Managing access to primary care clinics using scheduling templates pp. 482-498

Sina Faridimehr, Saravanan Venkatachalam and Ratna Babu Chinnam

An artificial neural network based mathematical model for a stochastic health care facility location problem pp. 499-514

Hamid Mousavi, Soroush Avakh Darestani and Parham Azimi

Optimal patient protocols in regional acute stroke care pp. 515-530

B. L. Garcia, R. Bekker, R. D. Mei, N. H. Chavannes and N. D. Kruyt

A predictive and prescriptive analytical framework for scheduling language medical interpreters pp. 531-550

Abdulaziz Ahmed and Elizabeth Frohn

Optimal portfolios of blood safety interventions: test, defer or modify? pp. 551-568

W. Alton Russell, Brian Custer and Margaret L. Brandeau

Using data envelopment analysis and the bootstrap method to evaluate organ transplantation efficiency in Brazil pp. 569-581

Alexandre Marinho and Claudia Affonso Silva Araújo

Does hospital competition lead to medical equipment expansion? Evidence on the medical arms race pp. 582-596

Liyong Lu and Jay Pan

A multi-stage stochastic programming approach to epidemic resource allocation with equity considerations pp. 597-622

Xuecheng Yin and İ. E. Büyüktahtakın

Agent-based evolving network modeling: a new simulation method for modeling low prevalence infectious diseases pp. 623-639

Matthew Eden, Rebecca Castonguay, Buyannemekh Munkhbat, Hari Balasubramanian and Chaitra Gopalappa

Optimization-driven framework to understand health care network costs and resource allocation pp. 640-660

Fernanda Bravo, Marcus Braun, Vivek Farias, Retsef Levi, Christine Lynch, John Tumolo and Richard Whyte

Volume 24, issue 2, 2021

Introduction to the special issue: Management Science in the Fight Against Covid-19 pp. 251-252

Alec Morton, Ebru Bish, Itamar Megiddo, Weifen Zhuang, Roberto Aringhieri, Sally Brailsford, Sarang Deo, Na Geng, Julie Higle, David Hutton, Mart Janssen, Edward H Kaplan, Jianbin Li, Monica Oliveira, Shankar Prinja, Marion Rauner, Sheetal Silal and Jie Song

From predictions to prescriptions: A data-driven response to COVID-19 pp. 253-272

Dimitris Bertsimas, Leonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis, Alexandre Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Li, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Jean Pauphilet, Omar Skali Lami, Bartolomeo Stellato, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg and Cynthia Zeng

Assessing the efficiency of Malaysia health system in COVID-19 prevention and treatment response pp. 273-285

Nurhafiza Md Hamzah, Ming-Miin Yu and Kok Fong See

An integer programming model to assign patients based on mental health impact for tele-psychotherapy intervention during the Covid–19 emergency pp. 286-304

Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo, Fernanda Salazar, Ramiro Torres, Patricio Arias and Koraima Sotomayor

Repeat SARS-CoV-2 testing models for residential college populations pp. 305-318

Joseph T. Chang, Forrest W. Crawford and Edward H. Kaplan

Correction to: Repeat SARS-CoV-2 testing models for residential college populations pp. 319-319

Joseph T. Chang, Forrest W. Crawford and Edward H. Kaplan

Aligning SARS-CoV-2 indicators via an epidemic model: application to hospital admissions and RNA detection in sewage sludge pp. 320-329

Edward H. Kaplan, Dennis Wang, Mike Wang, Amyn A. Malik, Alessandro Zulli and Jordan Peccia

Selecting pharmacies for COVID-19 testing to ensure access pp. 330-338

Simon Risanger, Bismark Singh, David Morton and Lauren Ancel Meyers

Personalized prescription of ACEI/ARBs for hypertensive COVID-19 patients pp. 339-355

Dimitris Bertsimas, Alison Borenstein, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Bartolomeo Stellato, Holly Wiberg, Pankaj Sarin, Dirk J. Varelmann, Vicente Estrada, Carlos Macaya and Iván J. Núñez Gil

Balancing scarce hospital resources during the COVID-19 pandemic using discrete-event simulation pp. 356-374

G.J. Melman, A.K. Parlikad and E.A.B. Cameron

The development and deployment of a model for hospital-level COVID-19 associated patient demand intervals from consistent estimators (DICE) pp. 375-401

Linying Yang, Teng Zhang, Peter Glynn and David Scheinker

Real-time forecasting of COVID-19 bed occupancy in wards and Intensive Care Units pp. 402-419

Stef Baas, Sander Dijkstra, Aleida Braaksma, Plom Rooij, Fieke J. Snijders, Lars Tiemessen and Richard J. Boucherie

A case for location based contact tracing pp. 420-438

Atul Pokharel, Robert Soulé and Avi Silberschatz

Prediction of personal protective equipment use in hospitals during COVID-19 pp. 439-453

Eugene Furman, Alex Cressman, Saeha Shin, Alexey Kuznetsov, Fahad Razak, Amol Verma and Adam Diamant

Volume 24, issue 1, 2021

Optimal cholesterol treatment plans and genetic testing strategies for cardiovascular diseases pp. 1-25

Wesley J. Marrero, Mariel S. Lavieri and Jeremy B. Sussman

A robust optimization model for tactical capacity planning in an outpatient setting pp. 26-40

Nazanin Aslani, Onur Kuzgunkaya, Navneet Vidyarthi and Daria Terekhov

Efficiency, quality, and management practices in health facilities providing outpatient HIV services in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia pp. 41-54

Sandra G. Sosa-Rubí, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Carlos Chivardi-Moreno, David Contreras-Loya, Gina Hera-Fuentes and Marjorie Opuni

Modeling patients as decision making units: evaluating the efficiency of kidney transplantation through data envelopment analysis pp. 55-71

Francisco Javier Santos Arteaga, Debora Di Caprio, David Cucchiari, Josep M Campistol, Federico Oppenheimer, Fritz Diekmann and Ignacio Revuelta

A Markov chain model for analysis of physician workflow in primary care clinics pp. 72-91

Sujee Lee, Philip A. Bain, Albert J. Musa and Jingshan Li

Markov chain analysis for the neonatal inpatient flow in a hospital pp. 92-116

Yuta Kanai and Hideaki Takagi

Scheduling patient appointment in an infusion center: a mixed integer robust optimization approach pp. 117-139

Mona Issabakhsh, Seokgi Lee and Hyojung Kang

Home care vehicle routing problem with chargeable overtime and strict and soft preference matching pp. 140-159

Laura Malagodi, Ettore Lanzarone and Andrea Matta

Patient selection in the presence of regulatory oversight based on healthcare report cards of providers: the case of organ transplantation pp. 160-184

Mariétou H. Ouayogodé and Kurt E. Schnier

The impact of quality on hospital choice. Which information affects patients’ behavior for colorectal resection or knee replacement? pp. 185-202

David Kuklinski, Justus Vogel and Alexander Geissler

A scheduling-based methodology for improving patient perceptions of quality of care in intensive care units pp. 203-215

Eduardo Pérez and David P. Dzubay

A simulation-based approach for improving the clinical blood sample supply chain pp. 216-233

Amir Elalouf, Dmitry Tsadikovich and Sharon Hovav

Developing an Institute for Health Care Delivery Science: successes, challenges, and solutions in the first five years pp. 234-243

Madhu Mazumdar, Jashvant V. Poeran, Bart S. Ferket, Nicole Zubizarreta, Parul Agarwal, Ksenia Gorbenko, Catherine K. Craven, Xiaobo (Tony) Zhong, Alan J. Moskowitz, Annetine C. Gelijns and David L. Reich