Health Care Management Science

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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

Volume 16, issue 4, 2013

Stochastic online appointment scheduling of multi-step sequential procedures in nuclear medicine pp. 281-299

Eduardo Pérez, Lewis Ntaimo, César Malavé, Carla Bailey and Peter McCormack

What is the value of ‘me-too’ drugs? pp. 300-313

Stephane Régnier

Recovery bed planning in cardiovascular surgery: a simulation case study pp. 314-327

Yariv Marmor, Thomas Rohleder, David Cook, Todd Huschka and Jeffrey Thompson

Do caesarean section rates ‘catch-up’? Evidence from 14 European countries pp. 328-340

Wen-Yi Chen

A system model of work flow in the patient room of hospital emergency department pp. 341-351

Junwen Wang, Jingshan Li and Patricia Howard

Using discrete-event simulation in strategic capacity planning for an outpatient physical therapy service pp. 352-365

Chi-Lun Rau, Pei-Fang Tsai, Sheau-Farn Liang, Jhih-Cian Tan, Hong-Cheng Syu, Yue-Ling Jheng, Ting-Syuan Ciou and Fu-Shan Jaw

Treatment speed and high load in the Emergency Department—does staff quality matter? pp. 366-376

Ludwig Kuntz and Sandra Sülz

Note on “Simulation optimization of PSA-threshold based prostate cancer screening policies” pp. 377-378

Daniel Underwood, Jingyu Zhang, Brian Denton, Nilay Shah and Brant Inman

Acknowledgement of referees’ services pp. 379-385

Xiashi Zhu

Volume 16, issue 3, 2013

Analyzing the nursing organizational structure and process from a scheduling perspective pp. 177-196

Broos Maenhout and Mario Vanhoucke

A two-phase approach to scheduling multi-category outpatient appointments – A case study of a women’s clinic pp. 197-216

Xiuli Qu, Yidong Peng, Nan Kong and Jing Shi

Using optimization models to demonstrate the need for structural changes in training programs for surgical medical residents pp. 217-227

Jonathan Turner, Kibaek Kim, Sanjay Mehrotra, Debra DaRosa, Mark Daskin and Heron Rodriguez

Measuring the efficiencies of visiting nurse service agencies using data envelopment analysis pp. 228-235

Yuki Kuwahara, Satoko Nagata, Atsuko Taguchi, Takashi Naruse, Hiroyuki Kawaguchi and Sachiyo Murashima

Balancing operating theatre and bed capacity in a cardiothoracic centre pp. 236-244

John Bowers

Comparing health outcomes among hospitals: the experience of the Lombardy Region pp. 245-257

Paolo Berta, Chiara Seghieri and Giorgio Vittadini

Female labour supply and nursing home prices pp. 258-270

Thomas Bauer and Magdalena Stroka

Developing an adaptive policy for long-term care capacity planning pp. 271-279

Yue Zhang and Martin Puterman

Volume 16, issue 2, 2013

Tradeoffs in cardiovascular disease prevention, treatment, and research pp. 87-100

George Miller, Matthew Daly and Charles Roehrig

The impact of case mix on timely access to appointments in a primary care group practice pp. 101-118

Asli Ozen and Hari Balasubramanian

Classifying highly imbalanced ICU data pp. 119-128

Yazan Roumani, Jerrold May, David Strum and Luis Vargas

Physicians in leadership: the association between medical director involvement and staff-to-patient ratios pp. 129-138

Ludwig Kuntz and Stefan Scholtes

Hospital organization and performance: a directional distance function approach pp. 139-151

Greta Falavigna, Roberto Ippoliti and Alessandro Manello

Tactical resource allocation and elective patient admission planning in care processes pp. 152-166

Peter Hulshof, Richard Boucherie, Erwin Hans and Johann Hurink

Predicting 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions pp. 167-175

Mollie Shulan, Kelly Gao and Crystal Moore

Volume 16, issue 1, 2013

Characteristics of service requests and service processes of fire and rescue service dispatch centers pp. 1-13

Ute Krueger and Katja Schimmelpfeng

Determining minimum staffing levels during snowstorms using an integrated simulation, regression, and reliability model pp. 14-26

Amber Kunkel and Laura McLay

Technical efficiency of Critical Access Hospitals: an application of the two-stage approach with double bootstrap pp. 27-36

Iustin Nedelea and James Fannin

Evaluating service quality dimensions as antecedents to outpatient satisfaction using back propagation neural network pp. 37-44

Daniela Carlucci, Paolo Renna and Giovanni Schiuma

A generic simulation model to assess the performance of sterilization services in health establishments pp. 45-61

Maria Di Mascolo and Alexia Gouin

Theory of constraints for publicly funded health systems pp. 62-74

Somayeh Sadat, Michael Carter and Brian Golden

Admission and capacity planning for the implementation of one-stop-shop in skin cancer treatment using simulation-based optimization pp. 75-86

H. Romero, N. Dellaert, S. Geer, M. Frunt, M. Jansen-Vullers and G. Krekels