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Optimal inventory system for pharmaceutical products incorporating quality degradation with expiration date: A game theory approach
Publication date: Available online 22 February 2020Source: Operations Research for Health CareAuthor(s): S. Priyan, P. MalaAbstractHealthcare supply chain systems around the world face an immediate pressure to transform in the face of unprecedented demand and high Customer Service Level (CSL). And the expiration date of a pharmaceutical product is also a widespread issue in a customer’s purchase decision. In view of this, studies are essential to understand operations in healthcare systems and to offer decision support tools that improve public health, patient safety and strategic decision-making in the healthcare syste...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - February 23, 2020 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

EURO 2018 — Innovative methods and uses of operations research in health and care applications
Publication date: March 2020Source: Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 24Author(s): Inês Marques, Derya Demirtas, Sebastian Rachuba, Christos Vasilakis (Source: Operations Research for Health Care)
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - January 13, 2020 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

EURO 2018 – Innovative methods and uses of operations research in health and care applications
Publication date: Available online 28 December 2019Source: Operations Research for Health CareAuthor(s): Inês Marques, Derya Demirtas, Sebastian Rachuba, Christos Vasilakis (Source: Operations Research for Health Care)
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - December 29, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

An optimization framework to determine an optimal local sharing variance for organ allocation
In this study, we focus on the analysis of sharing variances which allow allocating organs within participating members before offering them at other levels. This type of variance has been successfully implemented in the past. For example, Florida and Tennessee created the Statewide Sharing program whereby kidneys are made available within-state donor service areas before they are made available for regional or national allocation. This program removed geographic disparities within those two states and resulted in better performance of the system in the states. Given these success stories, we propose a multi-period optimiz...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - December 7, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

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Publication date: December 2019Source: Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 23Author(s): (Source: Operations Research for Health Care)
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - December 1, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Multi-criteria decision making in health care
Publication date: December 2019Source: Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 23Author(s): Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Sebastian Rachuba, Andrea Raith (Source: Operations Research for Health Care)
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - December 1, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Assessing the impact of patient prioritization on operating room schedules
Publication date: Available online 15 November 2019Source: Operations Research for Health CareAuthor(s): Mariana Oliveira, Valérie Bélanger, Inês Marques, Angel RuizAbstractThis paper proposes an integrated approach to merge patient prioritization and patient scheduling to improve access to services in an elective (i.e., non-urgent) context. In particular, we assume that patients are included on a waiting list for a given surgery, and that every patient on the list has received a “utility score”, which is a proxy for the relative urgency with regards to the other patients on the list. A mathematical model is formula...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - November 16, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Multitiered blood supply chain network competition: Linking blood service organizations, hospitals, and payers
Publication date: Available online 14 November 2019Source: Operations Research for Health CareAuthor(s): Pritha Dutta, Anna NagurneyAbstractIn this paper, we present a multitiered competitive supply chain network model for the blood banking industry, with a focus on the United States, that captures the economic interactions between three tiers of stakeholders; namely, the blood service organizations, the hospitals or medical centers, which transfuse blood to patients, and the payer groups that patients belong to. In addition, the supply chain framework for this life-saving product includes the competition among blood servi...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - November 15, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Performance indicator selection for operating room supply chains: An application of ANP
Publication date: Available online 11 November 2019Source: Operations Research for Health CareAuthor(s): Karen Moons, Geert Waeyenbergh, Liliane Pintelon, Paul Timmermans, Dirk De RidderAbstractManufacturing and maintenance processes significantly benefit from effective and integrated supply chain management. Recently, hospitals start to recognize the importance of these logistics initiatives to improve their operational performance while also maintaining high quality of patient care. Patient care processes are supported by a range of supply chain activities including inventory management and distribution of medical suppli...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - November 12, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

A stochastic location model for designing primary healthcare networks integrated with workforce cross-training
Publication date: Available online 5 November 2019Source: Operations Research for Health CareAuthor(s): Amir Ahamdi-Javid, Nasrin RamsheAbstractHealth posts aim to elevate the level of public health by providing primary health services. The effectiveness of a health-post network depends on factors, such as the number and location of health posts. The service quality in such networks can be improved by controlling the amount of congestion at facilities. An important policy for decreasing operational cost of these networks is to consider a workforce mix of flexible and dedicated servers. This paper integrates the network des...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - November 5, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Accumulating priority queues versus pure priority queues for managing patients in emergency departments
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2019Source: Operations Research for Health CareAuthor(s): Marta Cildoz, Amaia Ibarra, Fermin MallorAbstractImproving the quality of healthcare in emergency departments (EDs) is at the forefront of many hospital managers’ efforts, as they strive to plan and implement better patient flow strategies. In this paper, a new approach to manage the patient flow in EDs after triage is proposed. The new queue discipline, named accumulative priority queue with finite horizon and denoted by APQ-h, is an extension of the accumulative priority queue (APQ) discipline that considers not only...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - October 26, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Understanding provider-level properties that influence the transmission of healthcare associated infections using network analysis
This study focused on Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) acquisition for patients who stayed in a long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) in central Virginia during July and August 2014. We used both patient data (e.g., bed movement, screening results for CRE) and provider activity data documented through the electronic medical record. We created a network of patients for each HCW and performed Poisson regression analysis including the network measures. A total of 204 providers saw at least one of the nine positive patients who stayed in the LTACH over the study period. From the Poisson regression, provider types,...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - October 25, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Using mixed integer programming and constraint programming for operating rooms scheduling with modified block strategy
This study aims to find the optimal sequence and schedule of patients by minimizing the cost of overtime, makespan and completion time of surgeons’ operations by considering the resource constraints. Considering the limitations and real conditions of Al-Zahra Hospital, the largest educational hospital in Isfahan, Iran, is also an aspect of this study. The problem is modeled by mixed integer programming and Constraint Programming (CP). The performance of the models is verified by several random test instances. The results indicate that CP is more efficient than mathematical modeling in terms of the computational time for ...
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - October 25, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

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Publication date: September 2019Source: Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 22Author(s): (Source: Operations Research for Health Care)
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - August 30, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research

Introducing article numbering to Operations Research for Health Care
Publication date: September 2019Source: Operations Research for Health Care, Volume 22Author(s): Simon Jones (Source: Operations Research for Health Care)
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - August 30, 2019 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research