Health Care Management Science

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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

Volume 23, issue 4, 2020

New developments for the journal in 2020 pp. 481-481

Gregory S. Zaric

Personalized treatment for coronary artery disease patients: a machine learning approach pp. 482-506

Dimitris Bertsimas, Agni Orfanoudaki and Rory B. Weiner

Predicting and improving patient-level antibiotic adherence pp. 507-519

Isabelle Rao, Adir Shaham, Amir Yavneh, Dor Kahana, Itai Ashlagi, Margaret L. Brandeau and Dan Yamin

Radiotherapy treatment scheduling considering time window preferences pp. 520-534

Bruno Vieira, Derya Demirtas, Jeroen B. Kamer, Erwin W. Hans, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Nadia Lahrichi and Wim H. Harten

A stochastic risk-averse framework for blood donation appointment scheduling under uncertain donor arrivals pp. 535-555

Semih Yalçındağ, Seda Baş Güre, Giuliana Carello and Ettore Lanzarone

A heuristic approach to the task planning problem in a home care business pp. 556-570

Isabel Méndez-Fernández, Silvia Lorenzo-Freire, Ignacio García-Jurado, Julián Costa and Luisa Carpente

Tackling maternal mortality by improving technical efficiency in the production of primary health services: longitudinal evidence from the Mexican case pp. 571-584

Edson Serván-Mori, Carlos Chivardi, Fato Fene, Ileana Heredia-Pi, Miguel Ángel Mendoza González and Gustavo Nigenda

Optimal cost adjustment for a selfish routing healthcare network pp. 585-604

Young Hoon Lee and Yong Ho Choi

Are patients more adherent to newer drugs? pp. 605-618

Katharina Blankart and Frank Lichtenberg

Monitoring of high-yield and periodical processes in health care pp. 619-639

Nataliya Chukhrova and Arne Johannssen

Association between leniency of anesthesiologists when evaluating certified registered nurse anesthetists and when evaluating didactic lectures pp. 640-648

Franklin Dexter, Johannes Ledolter, Cynthia A. Wong and Bradley J. Hindman

Investigating the link between medical urgency and hospital efficiency – Insights from the German hospital market pp. 649-660

Annika Maren Schneider, Eva-Maria Oppel and Jonas Schreyögg

Multi-modality medical image fusion using hybridization of binary crow search optimization pp. 661-669

Velmurugan Subbiah Parvathy and Sivakumar Pothiraj

IoT with cloud based lung cancer diagnosis model using optimal support vector machine pp. 670-679

Dinesh Valluru and I. Jasmine Selvakumari Jeya

WIT120 data mining technology based on internet of things pp. 680-688

Qingyuan Zhou, Zongming Zhang and Yuancong Wang

Volume 23, issue 3, 2020

Containing 2019-nCoV (Wuhan) coronavirus pp. 311-314

Edward H. Kaplan

COVID-19 scenario modelling for the mitigation of capacity-dependent deaths in intensive care pp. 315-324

Richard M Wood, Christopher J McWilliams, Matthew J Thomas, Christopher P Bourdeaux and Christos Vasilakis

Integrated k-means clustering with data envelopment analysis of public hospital efficiency pp. 325-338

Songul Cinaroglu

Prediction of emergency department patient disposition decision for proactive resource allocation for admission pp. 339-359

Seung-Yup Lee, Ratna Babu Chinnam, Evrim Dalkiran, Seth Krupp and Michael Nauss

Designing schedule configuration of a hybrid appointment system for a two-stage outpatient clinic with multiple servers pp. 360-386

Sharan Srinivas and A. Ravi Ravindran

Patient classification based on volume and case-mix in the emergency department and their association with performance pp. 387-400

Farzad Zaerpour, Diane P. Bischak, Mozart B. C. Menezes, Andrew McRae and Eddy S. Lang

How efficient are surgical treatments in Japan? The case of a high-volume Japanese hospital pp. 401-413

Yuichi Watanabe, Haruko Noguchi and Yoshinori Nakata

A novel approach for breast cancer prediction using optimized ANN classifier based on big data environment pp. 414-426

M. Supriya and A. J. Deepa

A privacy protection method for health care big data management based on risk access control pp. 427-442

Mingyue Shi, Rong Jiang, Xiaohan Hu and Jingwei Shang

Brazilian hospitals’ performance: an assessment of the unified health system (SUS) pp. 443-452

Laura Botega, Mônica Viegas Andrade and Gilvan Ramalho Guedes

Advancing evidence-based healthcare facility design: a systematic literature review pp. 453-480

Farouq Halawa, Sreenath Chalil Madathil, Alice Gittler and Mohammad T. Khasawneh

Volume 23, issue 2, 2020

Editorial: smart technologies for improving the quality of mobile health care pp. 171-172

Tin-Chih Toly Chen, W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Michael J. O’grady and Katsuhiro Honda

Mining the preferences of patients for ubiquitous clinic recommendation pp. 173-184

Tin-Chih Toly Chen and Min-Chi Chiu

The value of mHealth for managing chronic conditions pp. 185-202

Saligrama Agnihothri, Leon Cui, Mohammad Delasay and Balaraman Rajan

Individuals’ adoption of smart technologies for preventive health care: a structural equation modeling approach pp. 203-214

Debora Bettiga, Lucio Lamberti and Emanuele Lettieri

Quantitative thresholds based decision support approach for the home health care scheduling and routing problem pp. 215-238

Jamal Abdul Nasir and Chuangyin Dang

Assessing sustainable effectiveness of the adjustment mechanism of a ubiquitous clinic recommendation system pp. 239-248

Min-Chi Chiu and Tin-Chih Toly Chen

A hybrid genetic algorithm for operating room scheduling pp. 249-263

Yang-Kuei Lin and Yin-Yi Chou

A decomposition - construction approach for solving the home health care scheduling problem pp. 264-286

Marouene Chaieb, Jaber Jemai and Khaled Mellouli

A comprehensive study of mobile-health based assistive technology for the healthcare of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pp. 287-309

Kanwal Yousaf, Zahid Mehmood, Israr Ahmad Awan, Tanzila Saba, Riad Alharbey, Talal Qadah and Mayda Abdullateef Alrige

Volume 23, issue 1, 2020

Welcome message from the new editor pp. 1-1

Gregory S. Zaric

Approaches for identifying U.S. medicare fraud in provider claims data pp. 2-19

Matthew Herland, Richard A. Bauder and Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar

Theoretical bounds and approximation of the probability mass function of future hospital bed demand pp. 20-33

Samuel Davis and Nasser Fard

Chemotherapy appointment scheduling and daily outpatient–nurse assignment pp. 34-50

Menel Benzaid, Nadia Lahrichi and Louis-Martin Rousseau

Multi-objective admission planning problem: a two-stage stochastic approach pp. 51-65

Ana Batista, Jorge Vera and David Pozo

Characterization of the flow of patients in a hospital from complex networks pp. 66-79

M. A. Miranda, S. Salvatierra, I. Rodríguez, M. J. Álvarez and V. Rodríguez

Analyzing economies of scale and scope in hospitals by use of case mix planning pp. 80-101

Sebastian McRae, Jens O. Brunner and Jonathan F. Bard

Decision models for distinguishing between clinically insignificant and significant tumors in prostate cancer biopsies: an application of Bayes’ Theorem to reduce costs and improve outcomes pp. 102-116

Arthur J. Swersey, John Colberg, Ronald Evans, Michael W. Kattan, Johannes Ledolter and Rodney Parker

Simulation-based optimization to improve hospital patient assignment to physicians and clinical units pp. 117-141

Hui Zhang, Thomas J. Best, Anton Chivu and David O. Meltzer

Identifying the contribution to hospital performance among Chinese regions by an aggregate directional distance function pp. 142-152

Zhiyang Shen and Vivian Valdmanis

Symbiotic simulation for the operational management of inpatient beds: model development and validation using Δ-method pp. 153-169

David Oakley, Bhakti Stephan Onggo and Dave Worthington

Correction to: The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in healthcare with a focus on hospitals pp. 170-170

Sebastian Kohl, Jan Schoenfelder, Andreas Fügener and Jens O. Brunner