Operations Research and Health Care A Handbook of Methods and Applications

Operations Research and Health Care A Handbook of Methods and Applications / edited by Margaret L. Brandeau, Francois Sainfort, William P. Pierskalla.

In both rich and poor nations, public resources for health care are inadequate to meet demand. Policy makers and health care providers must determine how to provide the most effective health care to citizens using the limited resources that are available. This chapter describes current and future ch...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Brandeau, Margaret L. (Editor), Sainfort, Francois (Editor), Pierskalla, William P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
Edition:1st ed. 2004.
Series:International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 70
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Operations research.
Decision making.
General practice (Medicine).
Production management.
Public finance.
Public health.
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Table of Contents:
  • Health Care Delivery: Current Problems and Future Challenges
  • Health Care Operations Management
  • Capacity Planning and Management in Hospitals
  • Location of Health Care Facilities
  • Ambulance Service Planning: Simulation and Data Visualisation
  • Supply Chain Management of Blood Banks
  • Evaluating the Efficiency of Hospitals’ Perioperative Services Using Dea
  • Benchmarking Using DEA: The Case of Mental Health Organizations
  • Using Simulation in an Acute-care Hospital: Easier Said Than Done
  • Public Policy and Economic Analysis
  • Estimating Risks to the Public Health
  • Modeling Health Outcomes for Economic Analysis
  • Duct Tape for Decision Makers: The Use of or Models in Pharmacoeconomics
  • Drug Policy: Insights from Mathematical Analysis
  • Modeling The Costs and Effects of Maintenance Treatment for Opiate Addiction
  • Harm Reduction in The Control of Infectious Diseases Among Injection Drug Users
  • The Cost Effectiveness of Partially Effective HIV Vaccines
  • Designing Pediatric Formularies for Childhood Immunization Using Integer Programming Models
  • Allocating Resources to Control Infectious Diseases
  • Microbial Risk Assessment for Drinking Water
  • Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Decision Making for Bioterror Preparedness: Examples from Smallpox Vaccination Policy
  • Models for Kidney Allocation
  • Planning in the Face of Politics: Reshaping Children’s Health Services in Inner London
  • Clinical Applications
  • Modeling Medical Treatment Using Markov Decision Processes
  • Dynamic Influence Diagrams: Applications to Medical Decision Modeling
  • Assessment of the Benefits of Anesthesia Patient Risk Reduction Measures
  • An Asthma Policy Model
  • A Bayesian Network to Assist Mammography Interpretation
  • Optimization and Decision Support in Brachytherapy Treatment Planning
  • Radiotherapy Treatment Design and Linear Programming
  • Optimization Tools for Radiation Treatment Planning in Matlab
  • Transmission Model Analysis of Nontypeable Haemophilus Influenzae
  • The Impact of Novel Treatments on A? Burden in Alzheimer’s Disease: Insights from A Mathematical Model.

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