Health Care Management Science

1998 - 2024

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Volume 21, issue 4, 2018

Scheduling internal medicine resident rotations to ensure fairness and facilitate continuity of care pp. 461-474

Ruben A. Proano and Akshit Agarwal

The impact of e-visits on patient access to primary care pp. 475-491

Xiang Zhong, Peter Hoonakker, Philip A. Bain, Albert J. Musa and Jingshan Li

Decreasing patient length of stay via new flexible exam room allocation policies in ambulatory care clinics pp. 492-516

Vahab Vahdat, Jacqueline Griffin and James E. Stahl

An expected coverage model with a cutoff priority queue pp. 517-533

Soovin Yoon and Laura A. Albert

Diabetes and the hospitalized patient pp. 534-553

Nisha Nataraj, Julie Simmons Ivy, Fay Cobb Payton and Joseph Norman

Overflow models for the admission of intensive care patients pp. 554-572

Yin-Chi Chan, Eric W. M. Wong, Gavin Joynt, Paul Lai and Moshe Zukerman

A supply model for nurse workforce projection in Malaysia pp. 573-586

Zuraida Abal Abas, Mohamad Raziff Ramli, Mohamad Ishak Desa, Nordin Saleh, Ainul Nadziha Hanafiah, Nuraini Aziz, Zaheera Zainal Abidin, Abdul Samad Shibghatullah, Ahmad Fadzli Nizam Abdul Rahman and Haslinda Musa

An efficient method for kidney allocation problem: a credibility-based fuzzy common weights data envelopment analysis approach pp. 587-603

Sahar Ahmadvand and Mir Saman Pishvaee

Population-level intervention and information collection in dynamic healthcare policy pp. 604-631

Lauren E. Cipriano and Thomas Weber

Optimal timing of drug sensitivity testing for patients on first-line tuberculosis treatment pp. 632-646

Sze-chuan Suen, Margaret L. Brandeau and Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

Volume 21, issue 3, 2018

RFID-based information visibility for hospital operations: exploring its positive effects using discrete event simulation pp. 305-316

Daniel A. Asamoah, Ramesh Sharda, Howard N. Rude and Derek Doran

Simulation-based approximate policy iteration for dynamic patient scheduling for radiation therapy pp. 317-325

Yasin Gocgun

Technical and scale efficiency in public and private Irish nursing homes – a bootstrap DEA approach pp. 326-347

Shiovan Ni Luasa, Declan Dineen and Marta Zieba

Identifying congestion levels, sources and determinants on intensive care units: the Portuguese case pp. 348-375

Diogo Ferreira and Rc Marques

Two-MILP models for scheduling elective surgeries within a private healthcare facility pp. 376-392

Hejer Khlif Hachicha and Farah Zeghal Mansour

Technical efficiency of nursing homes: do five-star quality ratings matter? pp. 393-400

Rajendra Dulal

An in-depth discussion and illustration of partial least squares structural equation modeling in health care pp. 401-408

Necmi Kemal Avkiran

Efficiency of physician specialist groups pp. 409-425

Lukas Kwietniewski and Jonas Schreyögg

Does participation in health information exchange improve hospital efficiency? pp. 426-438

Daniel M. Walker

Inventory management of reusable surgical supplies pp. 439-459

Adam Diamant, Joseph Milner, Fayez Quereshy and Bo Xu

Volume 21, issue 2, 2018

Editorial: IMA health 2016 pp. 157-158

Thierry Chaussalet, Chiristos Vasilakis and Martin Pitt

Modelling for the proposed roll-out of the ‘111’ service in Wales: a case study pp. 159-176

Mark Tuson, Tracey England, Doris Behrens, Richard Bowen, Dorothy Edwards, John Frankish and Jude Kay

Redesigning the diagnostic pathway for chest pain patients in emergency departments pp. 177-191

Sebastian Rachuba, Andrew Salmon, Zhivko Zhelev and Martin Pitt

Modeling the critical care pathway for cardiothoracic surgery pp. 192-203

Nicolas Bahou, Claire Fenwick, Gillian Anderson, Robert Meer and Tony Vassalos

Performance and cost evaluation of health information systems using micro-costing and discrete-event simulation pp. 204-223

Olfa Rejeb, Claire Pilet, Sabri Hamana, Xiaolan Xie, Thierry Durand, Saber Aloui, Anne Doly, Pierre Biron, Lionel Perrier and Vincent Augusto

Cognitive workload reduction in hospital information systems pp. 224-243

Daniel Gartner, Yiye Zhang and Rema Padman

A stochastic tabu search algorithm to align physician schedule with patient flow pp. 244-258

Nazgol Niroumandrad and Nadia Lahrichi

Patient choice modelling: how do patients choose their hospitals? pp. 259-268

Honora Smith, Christine Currie, Pornpimol Chaiwuttisak and Andreas Kyprianou

Predicting elderly patient length of stay in hospital and community care using a series of conditional Coxian phase-type distributions, further conditioned on a survival tree pp. 269-280

Andrew S. Gordon, Adele H. Marshall and Mariangela Zenga

A multi-state approach to patients affected by chronic heart failure pp. 281-291

Francesco Grossetti, Francesca Ieva and Anna Maria Paganoni

Regional variation in hospitalisation and mortality in heart failure: comparison of England and Lombardy using multistate modelling pp. 292-304

Alex Bottle, Chiara Maria Ventura, Kumar Dharmarajan, Paul Aylin, Francesca Ieva and Anna Maria Paganoni

Volume 21, issue 1, 2018

Operations research in intensive care unit management: a literature review pp. 1-24

Jie Bai, Andreas Fügener, Jan Schoenfelder and Jens O. Brunner

A widening gap? Static and dynamic performance differences between specialist and general hospitals pp. 25-36

Antonio Vera, Pythagoras Petratos and Torsten Oliver Salge

Modeling and designing health care payment innovations for medical imaging pp. 37-51

Hui Zhang, Christian Wernz and Danny Hughes

Forecasting the medical workforce: a stochastic agent-based simulation approach pp. 52-75

Mário Amorim Lopes, Álvaro Santos Almeida and Bernardo Almada-Lobo

Profit efficiency of physician practices: a stochastic frontier approach using panel data pp. 76-86

Lukas Kwietniewski and Jonas Schreyögg

Chemotherapy appointment scheduling under uncertainty using mean-risk stochastic integer programming pp. 87-104

Michelle Alvarado and Lewis Ntaimo

Optimal healthcare decision making under multiple mathematical models: application in prostate cancer screening pp. 105-118

Dimitris Bertsimas, John Silberholz and Thomas Trikalinos

A strategic gaming model for health information exchange markets pp. 119-130

Diego A. Martinez, Felipe Feijoo, Jose L. Zayas-Castro, Scott Levin and Tapas K. Das

An agent-based simulation model of patient choice of health care providers in accountable care organizations pp. 131-143

Abdullah Alibrahim and Shinyi Wu

Comparison of emergency department crowding scores: a discrete-event simulation approach pp. 144-155

Virginia Ahalt, Nilay Tanık Argon, Serhan Ziya, Jeff Strickler and Abhi Mehrotra

Volume 20, issue 4, 2017

Flexible bed allocations for hospital wards pp. 453-466

René Bekker, Ger Koole and Dennis Roubos

Decomposition of potential efficiency gains from hospital mergers in Greece pp. 467-484

Angeliki Flokou, Vassilis Aletras and Dimitris Niakas

Enhancing community based health programs in Iran: a multi-objective location-allocation model pp. 485-499

S. Khodaparasti, H. R. Maleki, S. Jahedi, M. E. Bruni and P. Beraldi

Determinants of efficiency in reducing child mortality in developing countries. The role of inequality and government effectiveness pp. 500-516

Bienvenido Ortega, Jesús Sanjuán and Antonio Casquero

Dynamic ambulance dispatching: is the closest-idle policy always optimal? pp. 517-531

C. J. Jagtenberg, S. Bhulai and R. D. Mei

Sustaining critical care: using evidence-based simulation to evaluate ICU management policies pp. 532-547

Amin Mahmoudian-Dehkordi and Somayeh Sadat

Simulation-optimization model for production planning in the blood supply chain pp. 548-564

Andres F. Osorio, Sally C. Brailsford, Honora K. Smith, Sonia P. Forero-Matiz and Bernardo A. Camacho-Rodríguez

Using nonparametric conditional approach to integrate quality into efficiency analysis: empirical evidence from cardiology departments pp. 565-576

Yauheniya Varabyova, Carl Blankart and Jonas Schreyögg

Erratum to: Using nonparametric conditional approach to integrate quality into efficiency analysis: empirical evidence from cardiology departments pp. 577-577

Yauheniya Varabyova, Carl Blankart and Jonas Schreyögg

Scheduling rules to achieve lead-time targets in outpatient appointment systems pp. 578-589

Thu-Ba T. Nguyen, Appa Iyer Sivakumar and Stephen C. Graves

Using observed sequence to orient causal networks pp. 590-599

Farrokh Alemi, Manaf Zargoush and Jee Vang

Volume 20, issue 3, 2017

Clustered and distinct: a taxonomy of local multihospital systems pp. 303-315

Patrick D. Shay and Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick

Cost efficiency of nursing homes: do five-star quality ratings matter? pp. 316-325

Rajendra Dulal

Due time driven surgery scheduling pp. 326-352

Michael Samudra, Erik Demeulemeester, Brecht Cardoen, Nancy Vansteenkiste and Frank E. Rademakers

Dynamic clustering of hazard functions: an application to disease progression in chronic heart failure pp. 353-364

Francesca Ieva, Anna Maria Paganoni and Teresa Pietrabissa

Measuring health indicators and allocating health resources: a DEA-based approach pp. 365-378

Chih-Ching Yang

Comparing the Efficiency of Hospitals in Italy and Germany: Nonparametric Conditional Approach Based on Partial Frontier pp. 379-394

Yauheniya Varabyova, Carl Blankart, Aleksandra Torbica and Jonas Schreyögg

Demographic factors influencing nonurgent emergency department utilization among a Medicaid population pp. 395-402

Leigh A. McCormack, Stephen G. Jones and Steven L. Coulter

Strategies for interday appointment scheduling in primary care pp. 403-418

Lara Wiesche, Matthias Schacht and Brigitte Werners

Preferred supplier contracts in post-patent prescription drug markets pp. 419-432

Carl Blankart and Tom Stargardt

Queueing network model for obstetric patient flow in a hospital pp. 433-451

Hideaki Takagi, Yuta Kanai and Kazuo Misue

Volume 20, issue 2, 2017

Output congestion leads to compromised care in Peruvian public hospital neonatal units pp. 157-164

Alejandro Arrieta and Jorge Guillén

A dynamic ambulance management model for rural areas pp. 165-186

T. C. Barneveld, S. Bhulai and R. D. Mei

A stochastic model of acute-care decisions based on patient and provider heterogeneity pp. 187-206

Muge Capan, Julie S. Ivy, James R. Wilson and Jeanne M. Huddleston

Case mix planning in hospitals: a review and future agenda pp. 207-220

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

Complementary effect of patient volume and quality of care on hospital cost efficiency pp. 221-231

Jeong Hoon Choi, Imsu Park, Ilyoung Jung and Asoke Dey

Cost inefficiency under financial strain: a stochastic frontier analysis of hospitals in Washington State through the Great Recession pp. 232-245

Germán M. Izón and Chelsea A. Pardini

Stochastic multi-objective auto-optimization for resource allocation decision-making in fixed-input health systems pp. 246-264

Nathaniel D. Bastian, Tahir Ekin, Hyojung Kang, Paul M. Griffin, Lawrence V. Fulton and Benjamin C. Grannan

Assessing overall, technical, and scale efficiency among home health care agencies pp. 265-275

Vivian Valdmanis, Michael D. Rosko, Hervé Leleu and Dana B. Mukamel

Optimizing nurse capacity in a teaching hospital neonatal intensive care unit pp. 276-285

Ali Kokangul, Serap Akcan and Mufide Narli

Strategic level proton therapy patient admission planning: a Markov decision process modeling approach pp. 286-302

Ridvan Gedik, Shengfan Zhang and Chase Rainwater

Volume 20, issue 1, 2017

Improving the performance of surgery-based clinical pathways: a simulation-optimization approach pp. 1-15

Yasar A. Ozcan, Elena Tànfani and Angela Testi

Optimizing patient treatment decisions in an era of rapid technological advances: the case of hepatitis C treatment pp. 16-32

Shan Liu, Margaret L. Brandeau and Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert

Scheduling elective surgeries: the tradeoff among bed capacity, waiting patients and operating room utilization using goal programming pp. 33-54

Xiangyong Li, N. Rafaliya, M. Fazle Baki and Ben A. Chaouch

Stochastic resource allocation in emergency departments with a multi-objective simulation optimization algorithm pp. 55-75

Yen-Yi Feng, I-Chin Wu and Tzu-Li Chen

Quantifying and explaining accessibility with application to the 2009 H1N1 vaccination campaign pp. 76-93

Jessica L. Heier Stamm, Nicoleta Serban, Julie Swann and Pascale Wortley

Contextual, organizational and ecological effects on the variations in hospital readmissions of rural Medicare beneficiaries in eight southeastern states pp. 94-104

Thomas T. H. Wan, Judith Ortiz, Alice Du and Adam G. Golden

A new preparedness policy for EMS logistics pp. 105-114

Seokcheon Lee

Overutilization and underutilization of operating rooms - insights from behavioral health care operations management pp. 115-128

Andreas Fügener, Sebastian Schiffels and Rainer Kolisch

Using data envelopment analysis for assessing the performance of pediatric emergency department physicians pp. 129-140

Javier Fiallos, Jonathan Patrick, Wojtek Michalowski and Ken Farion

Incorporating nurse absenteeism into staffing with demand uncertainty pp. 141-155

Kayse Lee Maass, Boying Liu, Mark S. Daskin, Mary Duck, Zhehui Wang, Rama Mwenesi and Hannah Schapiro