Health Care Management Science

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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

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