Health Care Management Science

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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

Volume 15, issue 4, 2012

Simulation optimization of PSA-threshold based prostate cancer screening policies pp. 293-309

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

Changes in hospital efficiency after privatization pp. 310-326

Oliver Tiemann and Jonas Schreyögg

Optimal incentives for allocating HIV/AIDS prevention resources among multiple populations pp. 327-338

Monali Malvankar-Mehta and Bin Xie

A multiple-drawer medication layout problem in automated dispensing cabinets pp. 339-354

Jennifer Pazour and Russell Meller

Decision support system for the operating room rescheduling problem pp. 355-372

J. Essen, Johann Hurink, Woutske Hartholt and Bernd Akker

Dynamics of the mental health workforce: investigating the composition of physicians and other health providers pp. 373-384

Theodore Stefos, James Burgess, Jeffrey Cohen, Laura Lehner and Eileen Moran

Modeling the demand for long-term care services under uncertain information pp. 385-412

Teresa Cardoso, Monica Oliveira, Ana Barbosa-Póvoa and Stefan Nickel

Volume 15, issue 3, 2012

Special issue on global health pp. 171-174

Geoff Royston

Geographic prioritization of distributing pandemic influenza vaccines pp. 175-187

Ozgur Araz, Alison Galvani and Lauren Meyers

Determining the optimal vaccine vial size in developing countries: a Monte Carlo simulation approach pp. 188-196

Aswin Dhamodharan and Ruben Proano

How operational research influenced the scale up of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi pp. 197-205

Anthony Harries, Simon Makombe, Erik Schouten, Andreas Jahn, Edwin Libamba, Kelita Kamoto and Frank Chimbwandira

Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis pp. 206-222

Sérgio Santos, Carla Amado and Mauro Santos

A worldwide investigation of tuberculosis epidemics pp. 223-238

Christine Currie and Kathryn Hoad

Modelling the impacts of new diagnostic tools for tuberculosis in developing countries to enhance policy decisions pp. 239-253

Ivor Langley, Basra Doulla, Hsien-Ho Lin, Kerry Millington and Bertie Squire

Resource planning for ambulance services in mass casualty incidents: a DES-based policy model pp. 254-269

Marion Rauner, Michaela Schaffhauser-Linzatti and Helmut Niessner

Modelling human resources policies with Markov models: an illustration with the South African nursing labour market pp. 270-282

Mylene Lagarde and John Cairns

Public health systems analysis—the transfer of learning between developed and developing countries pp. 283-291

Colin Thunhurst

Volume 15, issue 2, 2012

A Markov decision model for determining optimal outpatient scheduling pp. 91-102

Jonathan Patrick

Presenting Germany’s drug pricing rule as a cost-per-QALY rule pp. 103-107

Afschin Gandjour

Modeling and analysis of work flow and staffing level in a computed tomography division of University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation pp. 108-120

Junwen Wang, Shichuan Quan, Jingshan Li and Amy Hollis

Determining population based mortality risk in the Department of Veterans Affairs pp. 121-137

Theodore Stefos, Laura Lehner, Marta Render, Eileen Moran and Peter Almenoff

Intensity modulated radiation therapy with field rotation—a time-varying fractionation study pp. 138-154

Delal Dink, Mark Langer, Ronald Rardin, Joseph Pekny, Gintaras Reklaitis and Behlul Saka

Modeling the impact of changing patient transportation systems on peri-operative process performance in a large hospital: insights from a computer simulation study pp. 155-169

Danny Segev, Retsef Levi, Peter Dunn and Warren Sandberg

Volume 15, issue 1, 2012

Improving patient flow in an obstetric unit pp. 1-14

Jacqueline Griffin, Shuangjun Xia, Siyang Peng and Pinar Keskinocak

Medicare managed care and primary care quality: examining racial/ethnic effects across states pp. 15-28

Jayasree Basu

The impact of hospital utilization on patient readmission rate pp. 29-36

David Anderson, Bruce Golden, Wolfgang Jank and Edward Wasil

U.S. hospital efficiency and adoption of health information technology pp. 37-47

Natalia Zhivan and Mark Diana

On the effect of prospective payment on local hospital competition in Germany pp. 48-62

Helmut Herwartz and Christoph Strumann

Modeling and simulation of blood collection systems pp. 63-78

Edgar Alfonso, Xiaolan Xie, Vincent Augusto and Olivier Garraud

Use of Self-Organizing Maps for Balanced Scorecard analysis to monitor the performance of dialysis clinic chains pp. 79-90

Isabella Cattinelli, Elena Bolzoni, Carlo Barbieri, Flavio Mari, José Martin-Guerrero, Emilio Soria-Olivas, José Martinez-Martinez, Juan Gomez-Sanchis, Claudia Amato, Andrea Stopper and Emanuele Gatti