Health Care Management Science

1998 - 2024

Current editor(s): Yasar Ozcan

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Volume 19, issue 4, 2016

Creating impact with operations research in health: making room for practice in academia pp. 305-312

Margaret L. Brandeau

Measuring the efficiency of the Greek rural primary health care using a restricted DEA model; the case of southern and western Greece pp. 313-325

Nikolaos Oikonomou, Yannis Tountas, Argiris Mariolis, Kyriakos Souliotis, Kostas Athanasakis and John Kyriopoulos

Determinants of received long-term care – Individual responses to regional nursing home provisions pp. 326-337

Adam Pilny and Magdalena A. Stroka

The effect of information technology on hospital performance pp. 338-346

Cynthia Williams, Yara Asi, Amanda Raffenaud, Matt Bagwell and Ibrahim Zeini

Capacity planning and appointment scheduling for new patient oncology consults pp. 347-361

Xiang Ma, Antoine Sauré, Martin L. Puterman, Marianne Taylor and Scott Tyldesley

Iterative optimization algorithm with parameter estimation for the ambulance location problem pp. 362-382

Sun Hoon Kim and Young Hoon Lee

The operating room case-mix problem under uncertainty and nurses capacity constraints pp. 383-394

Zakaria Yahia, Amr B. Eltawil and Nermine A. Harraz

Volume 18, issue 4, 2015

An examination of competition and efficiency for hospital industry in Turkey pp. 407-418

Hacer Özgen Narcı, Yasar A. Ozcan, İsmet Şahin, Menderes Tarcan and Mustafa Narcı

Allocating operating room block time using historical caseload variability pp. 419-430

Narges Hosseini and Kevin Taaffe

Benchmarking clinical practice in surgery: looking beyond traditional mortality rates pp. 431-443

Ricardo Castro, Pedro Oliveira, Maria Silva, Ana Camanho and João Queiroz e Melo

Time-dependent ambulance allocation considering data-driven empirically required coverage pp. 444-458

Dirk Degel, Lara Wiesche, Sebastian Rachuba and Brigitte Werners

The impact of directed choice on the design of preventive healthcare facility network under congestion pp. 459-474

Navneet Vidyarthi and Onur Kuzgunkaya

Public health capacity in the provision of health care services pp. 475-482

Vivian Valdmanis, Arianna DeNicola and Patrick Bernet

Volume 18, issue 3, 2015

The 39th international conference of the EURO working group on operational research applied to health services: ORAHS 2013 special issue pp. 219-221

Tuğba Çayırlı, Murat Günal, Evrim Güneş and Lerzan Örmeci

A robust estimation model for surgery durations with temporal, operational, and surgery team effects pp. 222-233

Enis Kayış, Taghi Khaniyev, Jaap Suermondt and Karl Sylvester

Optimal control of ICU patient discharge: from theory to implementation pp. 234-250

Fermín Mallor, Cristina Azcárate and Julio Barado

A bicriteria heuristic for an elective surgery scheduling problem pp. 251-266

Inês Marques, M. Captivo and Margarida Vaz Pato

Analysis of patient waiting time governed by a generic maximum waiting time policy with general phase-type approximations pp. 267-278

Fanwen Meng, Kiok Teow, Chee Ooi, Bee Heng and Seow Tay

A case study of cost-efficient staffing under annualized hours pp. 279-288

Egbert Veen, Erwin Hans, Bart Veltman, Leo Berrevoets and Hubert Berden

A stochastic optimization model for shift scheduling in emergency departments pp. 289-302

Omar EL-Rifai, Thierry Garaix, Vincent Augusto and Xiaolan Xie

Fuzzy bi-objective preventive health care network design pp. 303-317

Soheil Davari, Kemal Kilic and Gurdal Ertek

Effect of individual protective behaviors on influenza transmission: an agent-based model pp. 318-333

Elnaz Karimi, Ketra Schmitt and Ali Akgunduz

Optimizing an HIV testing program using a system dynamics model of the continuum of care pp. 334-362

Sarah Kok, Alexander Rutherford, Reka Gustafson, Rolando Barrios, Julio Montaner and Krisztina Vasarhelyi

Applying reinforcement learning techniques to detect hepatocellular carcinoma under limited screening capacity pp. 363-375

Elliot Lee, Mariel Lavieri, Michael Volk and Yongcai Xu

Can hospitals compete on quality? pp. 376-388

Somayeh Sadat, Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi and Michael Carter

Breast cancer therapy planning – a novel support concept for a sequential decision making problem pp. 389-405

Alexander Scherrer, Ilka Schwidde, Andreas Dinges, Patrick Rüdiger, Sherko Kümmel and Karl-Heinz Küfer

Volume 18, issue 2, 2015

The 7th IMA international conference on quantitative modelling in the management of health and social care: IMA health 2013 special issue pp. 107-109

Christos Vasilakis, Thierry Chaussalet and Martin Pitt

Online stochastic optimization of radiotherapy patient scheduling pp. 110-123

Antoine Legrain, Marie-Andrée Fortin, Nadia Lahrichi and Louis-Martin Rousseau

A network flow approach for tactical resource planning in outpatient clinics pp. 124-136

Thu Nguyen, Appa Sivakumar and Stephen Graves

Patient flow improvement for an ophthalmic specialist outpatient clinic with aid of discrete event simulation and design of experiment pp. 137-155

Chong Pan, Dali Zhang, Audrey Kon, Charity Wai and Woo Ang

Classifier calibration using splined empirical probabilities in clinical risk prediction pp. 156-165

René Gaudoin, Giovanni Montana, Simon Jones, Paul Aylin and Alex Bottle

Detecting and visualizing outliers in provider profiling via funnel plots and mixed effect models pp. 166-172

Francesca Ieva and Anna Paganoni

A structured review of long-term care demand modelling pp. 173-194

Philip Worrall and Thierry Chaussalet

Continuity of care in community midwifery pp. 195-204

John Bowers, Helen Cheyne, Gillian Mould and Miranda Page

Impact of combined vector-control and vaccination strategies on transmission dynamics of dengue fever: a model-based analysis pp. 205-217

Gerhart Knerer, Christine Currie and Sally Brailsford

Erratum to: Prioritization strategies for patient evacuations pp. 218-218

Ashley Childers, Maria Mayorga and Kevin Taaffe

Volume 18, issue 1, 2015

Foreward to special issue on health analytics pp. 1-2

Farrokh Alemi

An analytics approach to designing patient centered medical homes pp. 3-18

Saeede Ajorlou, Issac Shams and Kai Yang

A predictive analytics approach to reducing 30-day avoidable readmissions among patients with heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, pneumonia, or COPD pp. 19-34

Issac Shams, Saeede Ajorlou and Kai Yang

Accept/decline decision module for the liver simulated allocation model pp. 35-57

Sang-Phil Kim, Diwakar Gupta, Ajay Israni and Bertram Kasiske

Ensemble of trees approaches to risk adjustment for evaluating a hospital’s performance pp. 58-66

Yang Liu, Mikhail Traskin, Scott Lorch, Edward George and Dylan Small

A cost sensitive inpatient bed reservation approach to reduce emergency department boarding times pp. 67-85

Shanshan Qiu, Ratna Chinnam, Alper Murat, Bassam Batarse, Hakimuddin Neemuchwala and Will Jordan

Using the landmark method for creating prediction models in large datasets derived from electronic health records pp. 86-92

Brian Wells, Kevin Chagin, Liang Li, Bo Hu, Changhong Yu and Michael Kattan

A machine learning approach to create blocking criteria for record linkage pp. 93-105

Phan Giang

Volume 17, issue 4, 2014

A hybrid approach for integrated healthcare cooperative purchasing and supply chain configuration pp. 303-320

Nazaré Rego, João Claro and Jorge Pinho de Sousa

Economies of scale in federally-funded state-organized public health programs: results from the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Programs pp. 321-330

Justin Trogdon, Donatus Ekwueme, Sujha Subramanian and Wesley Crouse

Efficiency, ownership, and financing of hospitals: The case of Austria pp. 331-347

Thomas Czypionka, Markus Kraus, Susanne Mayer and Gerald Röhrling

Balancing investments in federally qualified health centers and Medicaid for improved access and coverage in Pennsylvania pp. 348-364

Paul Griffin, Hyunji Lee, Christina Scherrer and Julie Swann

The relationship between hospital specialization and hospital efficiency: do different measures of specialization lead to different results? pp. 365-378

Ivonne Lindlbauer and Jonas Schreyögg

Dynamic optimization of chemotherapy outpatient scheduling with uncertainty pp. 379-392

Shoshana Hahn-Goldberg, Michael Carter, J. Beck, Maureen Trudeau, Philomena Sousa and Kathy Beattie

Erratum to: Computing exact bundle compliance control charts via probability generating functions pp. 393-393

Binchao Chen, Timothy Matis and James Benneyan

Volume 17, issue 3, 2014

Computer-aided auditing of prescription drug claims pp. 203-214

Vijay Iyengar, Keith Hermiz and Ramesh Natarajan

Evaluation of hospital medication inventory policies pp. 215-229

Marek Gebicki, Ed Mooney, Shi-Jie Chen and Lukasz Mazur

Optimal distribution of medical backpacks and health surveillance assistants in Malawi pp. 230-244

Amber Kunkel, Elizabeth Itallie and Duo Wu

A systematic approach for the location of hand sanitizer dispensers in hospitals pp. 245-258

Laila Cure, Richard Enk and Ewing Tiong

Competing risks analysis in mortality estimation for breast cancer patients from independent risk groups pp. 259-269

Shengfan Zhang, Julie Ivy, James Wilson, Kathleen Diehl and Bonnie Yankaskas

A decision-making framework for adaptive pain management pp. 270-283

Ching-Feng Lin, Aera LeBoulluec, Li Zeng, Victoria Chen and Robert Gatchel

A predictive modeling approach to increasing the economic effectiveness of disease management programs pp. 284-301

Andreas Bayerstadler, Franz Benstetter, Christian Heumann and Fabian Winter

Volume 17, issue 2, 2014

Estimation of the efficiency of Japanese hospitals using a dynamic and network data envelopment analysis model pp. 101-112

Hiroyuki Kawaguchi, Kaoru Tone and Miki Tsutsui

Intertemporal analysis of organizational productivity in residential aged care networks: scenario analyses for setting policy targets pp. 113-125

Necmi Avkiran and Alan McCrystal

Efficiency determinants and capacity issues in Brazilian for-profit hospitals pp. 126-138

Cláudia Araújo, Carlos Barros and Peter Wanke

The impact of policy on hospital productivity: a time series analysis of Dutch hospitals pp. 139-149

Jos Blank and Evelien Eggink

Cost and technical efficiency of physician practices: a stochastic frontier approach using panel data pp. 150-161

Mareike Heimeshoff, Jonas Schreyögg and Lukas Kwietniewski

HIV epidemic control—a model for optimal allocation of prevention and treatment resources pp. 162-181

Sabina Alistar, Elisa Long, Margaret Brandeau and Eduard Beck

The importance of extended high viremics in models of HIV spread in South Africa pp. 182-193

Benjamin Armbruster, Ekkehard Beck and Mustafa Waheed

A psychological approach to learning causal networks pp. 194-201

Manaf Zargoush, Farrokh Alemi, Vinzenzo Esposito Vinzi, Jee Vang and Raya Kheirbek

Volume 17, issue 1, 2014

An IP-based healthcare provider shift design approach to minimize patient handoffs pp. 1-14

Pooyan Kazemian, Yue Dong, Thomas Rohleder, Jonathan Helm and Mark Van Oyen

The home health care routing and scheduling problem with interdependent services pp. 15-30

Dorota Mankowska, Frank Meisel and Christian Bierwirth

Dynamic allocation of same-day requests in multi-physician primary care practices in the presence of prescheduled appointments pp. 31-48

Hari Balasubramanian, Sebastian Biehl, Longjie Dai and Ana Muriel

A decomposition approach for the combined master surgical schedule and surgical case assignment problems pp. 49-59

Alessandro Agnetis, Alberto Coppi, Matteo Corsini, Gabriella Dellino, Carlo Meloni and Marco Pranzo

Dynamic scheduling with due dates and time windows: an application to chemotherapy patient appointment booking pp. 60-76

Yasin Gocgun and Martin Puterman

Prioritization strategies for patient evacuations pp. 77-87

Ashley Childers, Maria Mayorga and Kevin Taaffe

Estimating the waiting time of multi-priority emergency patients with downstream blocking pp. 88-99

Di Lin, Jonathan Patrick and Fabrice Labeau