Health Care Management Science

1998 - 2024

Current editor(s): Yasar Ozcan

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Volume 12, issue 4, 2009

Editorial pp. 341-341

Yasar Ozcan

Health emergency & care management pp. 342-343

Angela Testi and Anna Sciomachen

A computational approach for the health care market pp. 344-350

Marcello Montefiori and Marina Resta

Incentive compatibility in kidney exchange problems pp. 351-362

Silvia Villa and Fioravante Patrone

Tactical and operational decisions for operating room planning: Efficiency and welfare implications pp. 363-373

Angela Testi and Elena Tànfani

What is a ‘generic’ hospital model?—a comparison of ‘generic’ and ‘specific’ hospital models of emergency patient flows pp. 374-391

Adrian Fletcher and Dave Worthington

Reducing patient wait times and improving resource utilization at British Columbia Cancer Agency’s ambulatory care unit through simulation pp. 392-407

Pablo Santibáñez, Vincent Chow, John French, Martin Puterman and Scott Tyldesley

The performance of a generalized Bailey–Welch rule for outpatient appointment scheduling under inpatient and emergency demand pp. 408-419

Sabine Sickinger and Rainer Kolisch

How well does diagnosis-based risk-adjustment work for comparing ambulatory clinical outcomes? pp. 420-433

Askar Chukmaitov, David Harless, Nir Menachemi, Charles Saunders and Robert Brooks

Exploring information systems outsourcing in U.S. hospital-based health care delivery systems pp. 434-450

Mark L. Diana

Volume 12, issue 3, 2009

The impact of TennCare on hospital efficiency pp. 201-216

Cyril Chang and Jennifer Troyer

The timing of adoption of positron emission tomography: a real options approach pp. 217-227

Paolo Pertile, Emanuele Torri, Luciano Flor and Stefano Tardivo

Accommodating individual preferences in nurse scheduling via auctions and optimization pp. 228-242

Melanie De Grano, D. Medeiros and David Eitel

Emergency department visits: the cost of trauma centers pp. 243-251

Kyung Kim, Kathleen Carey and James Burgess

A data-integrated simulation model to evaluate nurse–patient assignments pp. 252-268

Durai Sundaramoorthi, Victoria Chen, Jay Rosenberger, Seoung Kim and Deborah Buckley-Behan

On the effectiveness of care co-ordination services aimed at preventing hospital admissions and emergency attendances pp. 269-284

Les Mayhew

Flexible shift scheduling of physicians pp. 285-305

Jens Brunner, Jonathan Bard and Rainer Kolisch

Specialization and competition in healthcare delivery networks pp. 306-324

Vikram Tiwari and H. Heese

Improving patient flow at an outpatient clinic: study of sources of variability and improvement factors pp. 325-340

Suresh Chand, Herbert Moskowitz, John Norris, Steve Shade and Deanna Willis

Volume 12, issue 2, 2009

Operational research applied to health services 2007 special issue pp. 117-118

Franklin Dexter, Eric Marcon and Xiaolan Xie

Optimizing nursing human resource planning in British Columbia pp. 119-128

Mariel Lavieri and Martin Puterman

Patient mix optimisation and stochastic resource requirements: A case study in cardiothoracic surgery planning pp. 129-141

Ivo Adan, Jos Bekkers, Nico Dellaert, Jan Vissers and Xiaoting Yu

What is the best workflow for an operating room? A simulation study of five scenarios pp. 142-146

Riitta Marjamaa, Paulus Torkki, Eero Hirvensalo and Olli Kirvelä

Speed and quality in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery: is there a connection? pp. 147-154

Juha-Matti Lehtonen, Mikko Hippeläinen, Eija Kattainen, Juhani Kouri and Jaakko Kujala

Restructuring patient flow logistics around patient care needs: implications and practicalities from three critical cases pp. 155-165

Stefano Villa, Marta Barbieri and Federico Lega

Redesigning pharmacy delivery processes of a health care complex pp. 166-178

Vincent Augusto and Xiaolan Xie

Exploring new operational research opportunities within the Home Care context: the chemotherapy at home pp. 179-191

Salma Chahed, Eric Marcon, Evren Sahin, Dominique Feillet and Yves Dallery

The economics of cancer care: longitudinal changes in provider efficiency pp. 192-200

James Langabeer and Yasar Ozcan

Volume 12, issue 1, 2009

Identifying the impact of government targets on waiting times in the NHS pp. 1-10

Sofia Dimakou, David Parkin, Nancy Devlin and John Appleby

Modelling healthcare systems with phase-type distributions pp. 11-26

Mark Fackrell

Optimal investment in HIV prevention programs: more is not always better pp. 27-37

Margaret Brandeau and Gregory Zaric

Inter-DRG resource dynamics in a prospective payment system: a stochastic kernel approach pp. 38-55

Anurag Sharma

An empirical study for medication delivery improvement based on healthcare professionals’ perceptions of medication delivery system pp. 56-66

Lukasz Mazur and Shi-Jie Chen

Erlang loss models for the static deployment of ambulances pp. 67-79

Mateo Restrepo, Shane Henderson and Huseyin Topaloglu

A deterministic model of home and community care client counts in British Columbia pp. 80-98

W. Hare, A. Alimadad, H. Dodd, R. Ferguson and A. Rutherford

Effect of two-level provider capacities on the performance of open access clinics pp. 99-114

Xiuli Qu and Jing Shi

Hidden waiting times of elective surgery pp. 115-115

Owen Bradfield

Volume 11, issue 4, 2008

Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: an example of surgical workload by specialty pp. 307-318

Franklin Dexter, Liam O’Neill, Lei Xin and Johannes Ledolter

Efficiency of Thai provincial public hospitals during the introduction of universal health coverage using capitation pp. 319-338

Rajitkanok Puenpatom and Robert Rosenman

Maximizing the effectiveness of a pediatric vaccine formulary while prohibiting extraimmunization pp. 339-352

Shane Hall, Edward Sewell and Sheldon Jacobson

Detecting hospital fraud and claim abuse through diabetic outpatient services pp. 353-358

Fen-May Liou, Ying-Chan Tang and Jean-Yi Chen

Understanding the effects of pharmaceutical promotion: a neural network approach guided by genetic algorithm-partial least squares pp. 359-372

Chee Lim and Toru Kirikoshi

An analysis of hospital efficiency and productivity growth using the Luenberger indicator pp. 373-381

Carlos Barros, António Menezes, Nicolas Peypoch, Bernardin Solonandrasana and José Vieira

Assessing nursing home care quality through Bayesian networks pp. 382-392

Justin Goodson and Wooseung Jang

Are physician and non-physician providers of outpatient mental healthcare substitutes or complements? a conceptual clarification pp. 393-398

Albert Okunade and Vasudeva Murthy

Keeping the noise down: common random numbers for disease simulation modeling pp. 399-406

Natasha Stout and Sue Goldie

Volume 11, issue 3, 2008

Determinants of the choice of health care provider in Nigeria pp. 215-227

Lloyd Amaghionyeodiwe

Operating room management and operating room productivity: the case of Germany pp. 228-239

Maresi Berry, Thomas Berry-Stölzle and Alexander Schleppers

Restructuring routine elective services to reduce overall capacity requirements within a local health economy pp. 240-247

Martin Utley, Mark Jit and Steve Gallivan

A queueing network model to analyze the impact of parallelization of care on patient cycle time pp. 248-261

Lixiang Jiang and Ronald Giachetti

Optimal ambulance location with random delays and travel times pp. 262-274

Armann Ingolfsson, Susan Budge and Erhan Erkut

A survey on statistical methods for health care fraud detection pp. 275-287

Jing Li, Kuei-Ying Huang, Jionghua Jin and Jianjun Shi

Pricing of prescription drugs and its impact on physicians’ choice behavior pp. 288-295

Chen Miao-Sheng and Shih Yu-Ti

A technical note concerning non-adherence to drug therapy: exact expressions for the mean and variance of drug concentration pp. 296-301

Steve Gallivan, Christina Pagel, Martin Utley, Bryony Dean Franklin, Katja Taxis and Nick Barber

Quantifying the impact of non-adherence to drug therapy: a technical note concerning an application of a branch and bound algorithm pp. 302-305

Daniel Smith, Christina Pagel, Martin Utley and Steve Gallivan

Volume 11, issue 1, 2008

The role of organizational factors in the adoption of healthcare information technology in Florida hospitals pp. 1-9

Neset Hikmet, Anol Bhattacherjee, Nir Menachemi, Varol Kayhan and Robert Brooks

Using queuing theory to analyse the Government’s 4-h completion time target in Accident and Emergency departments pp. 11-21

L. Mayhew and D. Smith

Optimizing sterilization logistics in hospitals pp. 23-33

Joris Klundert, Philippe Muls and Maarten Schadd

Modelling of errors in databases pp. 35-40

Steve Gallivan and Christina Pagel

Stratified random sampling for estimating billing accuracy in health care systems pp. 41-54

Jirachai Buddhakulsomsiri and Parthana Parthanadee

Understanding and reducing the medication delivery waste via systems mapping and analysis pp. 55-65

Lukasz Mazur and Shi-Jie Chen

Is more better? An analysis of hospital outcomes and efficiency with a DEA model of output congestion pp. 67-77

Jan Clement, Vivian Valdmanis, Gloria Bazzoli, Mei Zhao and Askar Chukmaitov

Using the Statecharts paradigm for simulation of patient flow in surgical care pp. 79-86

Boris Sobolev, David Harel, Christos Vasilakis and Adrian Levy