Country: Netherlands

Found 18376 papers in total
Graceful reassignment of excessively long communications paths in networks
2005,
Modern broadband telecommunications networks transport diverse classes of traffic...
Hospital ownership and operating efficiency: Evidence from Taiwan
2004,
This paper employs the non-parametric data envelopment analysis to document empirical...
Performance of US teaching hospitals: A panel analysis of cost inefficiency
2004,
This research summarizes an analysis of the impact of environment pressures on...
Inpatient–outpatient cost shifting in Washington state hospitals
2004,
This paper empirically investigates the phenomenon known as cost shifting across...
Addressing bed costs for the elderly: A new methodology for modelling patient outcomes and length of stay
2004,
The proportion of elderly in the population has dramatically increased and will...
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (‘NICE’) approach to technology assessment: An economics perspective
2004,
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has published guidelines for economic...
Estimation of asset demands by heterogeneous agents
2005,
We develop optimization models to analyze the demand for financial assets by...
Use of quality adjusted life years and life years gained as benchmarks in economic evaluations: A critical appraisal
2004,
Researchers have grappled with various ways of placing the results of an economic...
Incorporating transport cost in the lot size and pricing decisions with downward sloping demand
2005,
There is an increased emphasis in supply chain management on making all costs...
Measuring case-mix complexity of tertiary care hospitals using diagnostic related groups
2004,
The objectives of the study were to develop a model that measures and evaluates...
Determining location and size of medical departments in a hospital network: A multiobjective decision support approach
2004,
Decisions on the location and size of medical departments in a given hospital network...
A modeling framework for optimal long-term care insurance purchase decisions in retirement planning
2004,
The level of need and costs of obtaining long-term care (LTC) during retired life...
An integrated product returns model with logistics and marketing coordination
2005,
We develop an integrated approach for analyzing logistics and marketing decisions...
Reallocation of beds to reduce waiting time for cardiac surgery
2004,
Waiting time for cardiac surgery is a significant problem in the medical world. The...
The decision-making on an in-house logistic division's operation strategies
2005,
This paper mathematically proves under which situations a firm should run its in-house...
Modeling the spread of annual influenza epidemics in the U.S.: The potential role of air travel
2004,
The role of air travel in the global spread of influenza has been the subject of a...
Consolidating a warehouse network: A physical programming approach
2005,
Faced with mounting cost pressure, many companies consider downsizing their...
Applying a mixed-integer program to model re-screening women who test positive for C. trachomatis infection
2004,
We proposed a mixed-integer program to model the management of C. trachomatis...
Analysis of a supply chain partnership with revenue sharing
2005,
The profit margins of retailers and providers are becoming smaller as a greater number...
A frontier analysis approach for benchmarking hospital performance in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction
2004,
This paper uses a non-parametric frontier model and adaptations of the concepts of...
Intermodal container flows in a port system network: Analysis of possible growths via simulation models
2005,
We present a discrete event simulation modelling approach related to the logistic...
The effective use of a summary table and decision tree methodology to analyze very large healthcare datasets
2004,
Very large datasets typically consist of millions of records, with many variables....
Diagnosis related group-based cost minimization models: applications in a hospital environment
2004,
The primary objective of this article is to investigate the feasibility of the...
Stochastic dominance and medical decision making
2004,
Stochastic Dominance (SD) criteria are decision making tools which allow us to choose...
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