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Intraoperative risk management of hyperparathyroidism: Modeling and testing the parathyroid hormone’s evolution as a mean reverting stochastic processes
Publication date: March 2014 Source:Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 3, Issue 1 Author(s): Eitan Prisman , Eliezer Z. Prisman , Jeremy Freeman This paper describes and validates a stochastic model (Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process) for parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. Rapid intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay supports the emergence of a minimally invasive approach to unilateral parathyroid exploration in the surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism. The model’s goal is to verify whether a cure has been attained with excision of abnormal parathyroid tissue, based on intraoperative measurements, sparin...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - October 12, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Improving decision-making and management of hospital resources: An application of the PROMETHEE II method in an Emergency Department
Publication date: March 2014 Source:Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 3, Issue 1 Author(s): Thiago M. Amaral , Ana P.C. Costa An Emergency Department (ED) is considered the heart of a hospital and in many cities around the world, and especially in developing countries such as Brazil, it is very often the sole source of medical care. Making decisions about hospital resource management is not a trivial activity and incorrect decision-making can have serious consequences on the quality of health care services provided to the community. This paper describes the application of the PROMETHEE II method to support ...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - October 12, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Corrigendum to “Dose optimization in high-dose-rate brachytherapy: A literature review of quantitative models from 1990–2010” [ORHC 3 (2) (2014) 80–90]
Publication date: June 2014 Source:Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 3, Issue 2 Author(s): L. De Boeck , J. Beliën , W. Egyed (Source: Operations Research for Health Care)
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - October 12, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Are numbers still killing people: And what is being done about it?
Publication date: June 2014 Source:Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 3, Issue 2 Author(s): Penelope M. Mullen There is increasing recourse to quantitative approaches in healthcare allocation and prioritisation, frequently using methods from operational research and health economics. Such approaches can prove very attractive and influential, employing what are viewed as scientific, rational, methods. But can high-tech quantitative analysis, taken to its apparently logical conclusion, cause the ethical ‘human’ dimension in health care to be overridden. This paper develops some of the ethics arguments posed...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - October 12, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research