Health Care Management Science

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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

Volume 22, issue 4, 2019

Modelling mortality and discharge of hospitalized stroke patients using a phase-type recovery model pp. 570-588

Bruce Jones, Sally McClean and David Stanford

A study on the impact of prioritising emergency department arrivals on the patient waiting time pp. 589-614

Ellen Bockstal and Broos Maenhout

The self-regulating nature of occupancy in ICUs: stochastic homoeostasis pp. 615-634

Josephine Varney, Nigel Bean and Mark Mackay

Simulation model of the relationship between cesarean section rates and labor duration pp. 635-657

Karen T. Hicklin, Julie S. Ivy, James R. Wilson, Fay Cobb Payton, Meera Viswanathan and Evan R. Myers

A review on ambulance offload delay literature pp. 658-675

Mengyu Li, Peter Vanberkel and Alix J. E. Carter

Cyclic shift scheduling with on-call duties for emergency medical services pp. 676-690

Tristan Becker, Pia Mareike Steenweg and Brigitte Werners

Hospital physicians can’t get no long-term satisfaction – an indicator for fairness in preference fulfillment on duty schedules pp. 691-708

Christopher N. Gross, Jens O. Brunner and Manfred Blobner

The impact of specialization of hospitals on patient access to care; a queuing analysis with an application to a neurological hospital pp. 709-726

Saied Samiedaluie and Vedat Verter

A Multi-Fidelity Rollout Algorithm for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Population Disease Management pp. 727-755

Ting-Yu Ho, Shan Liu and Zelda B. Zabinsky

Improving the efficiency of the operating room environment with an optimization and machine learning model pp. 756-767

Michael Fairley, David Scheinker and Margaret L. Brandeau

Patient scheduling based on a service-time prediction model: a data-driven study for a radiotherapy center pp. 768-782

Dina Bentayeb, Nadia Lahrichi and Louis-Martin Rousseau

Volume 22, issue 3, 2019

Editorial pp. 391-393

Vincent Charles

Impulse response function analysis of the impacts of hospital accreditations on hospital efficiency pp. 394-409

Fengyi Lin, Yung-Jr Deng, Wen-Min Lu and Qian Long Kweh

Road map for progress and attractiveness of Iranian hospitals by integrating self-organizing map and context-dependent DEA pp. 410-436

Mustafa Jahangoshai Rezaee, Abuzar Karimdadi and Hamidreza Izadbakhsh

Assessment of the impact of public hospital associations (PHAs) on the efficiency of hospitals under the ministry of health in Turkey with data envelopment analysis pp. 437-446

Bayram Şahin and Gülnur İlgün

Letter to editor: about the impact of Public Hospital Unions (PHUs) on the efficiency of hospital in Turkey pp. 447-447

Aziz Küçük

Letter to editor: about criticisms regarding manuscript entitled “assessment of the impact of public hospital associations (PHAs) on the efficiency of hospitals under the Ministry of Health in Turkey with data envelopment analysis” pp. 448-450

Bayram Şahin and Gülnur İlgün

Productivity growth and quality changes of hospitals in Taiwan: does ownership matter? pp. 451-461

Kuan-Chen Chen, Hong-Ming Chen, Li-Nien Chien and Ming-Miin Yu

Technical efficiency and its influencing factors in Malaysian hospital pharmacy services pp. 462-474

Nurhafiza Md Hamzah and Kok Fong See

A hybrid data envelopment analysis and game theory model for performance measurement in healthcare pp. 475-488

Habib Zare, Madjid Tavana, Abbas Mardani, Sepideh Masoudian and Mahyar Kamali Saraji

Measuring efficiency of community health centers: a multi-model approach considering quality of care and heterogeneous operating environments pp. 489-511

Ronald G. McGarvey, Andreas Thorsen, Maggie L. Thorsen and Rohith Madhi Reddy

Cross-efficiency evaluation in the presence of flexible measures with an application to healthcare systems pp. 512-533

Sepideh Abolghasem, Mehdi Toloo and Santiago Amézquita

A study on healthcare supply chain management efficiency: using bootstrap data envelopment analysis pp. 534-548

Changhee Kim and Hyun Jung Kim

Do healthcare financing systems influence hospital efficiency? A metafrontier approach for the case of Mexico pp. 549-559

Víctor Giménez, Jorge R. Keith and Diego Prior

Fuzzy DEA-based classifier and its applications in healthcare management pp. 560-568

Ai-bing Ji, Yanhua Qiao and Chang Liu

Volume 22, issue 2, 2019

Multimethodology applied to the evaluation of Healthcare in Brazilian municipalities pp. 197-214

Marcos Pereira Estellita Lins, Sergio Orlando Antoun Netto and Maria Stella Castro Lobo

Performance evaluation of nonhomogeneous hospitals: the case of Hong Kong hospitals pp. 215-228

Yongjun Li, Xiyang Lei and Alec Morton

Appointment scheduling in multi-stage outpatient clinics pp. 229-244

Kenneth J. Klassen and Reena Yoogalingam

The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in healthcare with a focus on hospitals pp. 245-286

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

A proactive transfer policy for critical patient flow management pp. 287-303

Jaime González, Juan-Carlos Ferrer, Alejandro Cataldo and Luis Rojas

Design of shared unit-dose drug distribution network using multi-level particle swarm optimization pp. 304-317

Linjie Chen, Thibaud Monteiro, Tao Wang and Eric Marcon

Data-driven optimization methodology for admission control in critical care units pp. 318-335

Amirhossein Meisami, Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson, Mark E. Cowen and Mark P. Oyen

Dependence and power in healthcare equipment supply chains pp. 336-349

Jurriaan L. Jong and W. C. Benton

Keeping pace with the ebbs and flows in daily nursing home operations pp. 350-363

René Bekker, Dennis Moeke and Bas Schmidt

Bayesian logistic regression approaches to predict incorrect DRG assignment pp. 364-375

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

Patient-centric design of long-term care networks pp. 376-390

Paul Intrevado, Vedat Verter and Lucie Tremblay

Volume 22, issue 1, 2019

Nurses’ work with interruptions: an objective model for testing interventions pp. 1-15

Robert A. Myers and Pratik J. Parikh

Queueing theoretic analysis of labor and delivery pp. 16-33

Matthew Gombolay, Toni Golen, Neel Shah and Julie Shah

Probabilistic sensitivity analysis on Markov models with uncertain transition probabilities: an application in evaluating treatment decisions for type 2 diabetes pp. 34-52

Yuanhui Zhang, Haipeng Wu, Brian T. Denton, James R. Wilson and Jennifer M. Lobo

Stochastic integer programming for multi-disciplinary outpatient clinic planning pp. 53-67

A. G. Leeftink, I. M. H. Vliegen and E. W. Hans

An optimization model to determine appointment scheduling window for an outpatient clinic with patient no-shows pp. 68-84

Li Luo, Ying Zhou, Bernard T. Han and Jialing Li

Classification of hospital admissions into emergency and elective care: a machine learning approach pp. 85-105

Jonas Krämer, Jonas Schreyögg and Reinhard Busse

Service quality benchmarking via a novel approach based on fuzzy ELECTRE III and IPA: an empirical case involving the Italian public healthcare context pp. 106-120

Concetta Manuela La Fata, Toni Lupo and Tommaso Piazza

Reducing COPD readmissions through predictive modeling and incentive-based interventions pp. 121-139

Xiang Zhong, Sujee Lee, Cong Zhao, Hyo Kyung Lee, Philip A. Bain, Tammy Kundinger, Craig Sommers, Christine Baker and Jingshan Li

Dynamically accepting and scheduling patients for home healthcare pp. 140-155

Mustafa Demirbilek, Juergen Branke and Arne Strauss

Claims data-driven modeling of hospital time-to-readmission risk with latent heterogeneity pp. 156-179

Suiyao Chen, Nan Kong, Xuxue Sun, Hongdao Meng and Mingyang Li

A decision support system for real-time scheduling of multiple patient classes in outpatient services pp. 180-195

William P. Millhiser and Emre A. Veral