Country: Netherlands

Found 18376 papers in total
Decision making support in reshaping hospital medical services
1998,
‘Bed crisis’ is a buzz word of the 90s in the National Health Service....
Health care management modelling: A process perspective
1998,
Modelling-based health care management ought to become just as popular as evidence...
Using simulation to educate hospital staff about casemix
1998,
When the Australian government funded a casemix development program, few hospital...
The transformation of the probability of a heart fatality into a queue position
1998,
The population of Bury and Rochdale has a much higher rate of Coronary Heart Disease...
Sequencing and scheduling N customers for a stochastic server
1999,
In this paper, we study the problem of sequencing and scheduling N customers for a...
Use of a mathematical model to evaluate breast cancer screening policy
1998,
A model of breast cancer screening was developed, in which the processes of tumour...
Evaluating screening policies for the early detection of retinopathy in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes
1998,
Retinopathy is a common complication of insulin-dependent and non-insulin-dependent...
Evaluating the costs of alternative options for dementia services
1998,
In the next decade the number of demented people is likely to increase. This has a...
Selecting a decision model for economic evaluation: A case study and review
1998,
The increased use of modelling techniques as a methodological tool in the economic...
A simulation modelling approach to evaluating length of stay, occupancy, emptiness and bed blocking in a hospital geriatric department
1998,
The flow of patients through geriatric hospitals has been previously described in...
An analysis of admission, discharge and bed occupancy of stroke patients aged 65 and over in English hospitals
1998,
Stroke illness is a common problem in the UK. Factors such as incidence, age, and...
A three compartment model of the patient flows in a geriatric department. A decision support approach
1998,
As users of long term geriatric services occupy the beds for prolonged periods of time...
An integer programming model for vaccine procurement and delivery for childhood immunization: A pilot study
1999,
The National Immunization Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Productivity and efficiency changes in primary care: A Malmquist index approach
1999,
The reforms of the National Health System in the UK introduced in 1990 led to...
Improving on-time performance in health care organizations: A case study
1999,
In this paper, we propose a strategy to build a measurement system that helps improve...
When should pharmacists visit their wards? An application of simulation to planning hospital pharmacy services
1999,
This paper reports a pilot study of the use of simulation in planning hospital...
Strategic adaptation of US rural hospitals during an era of limited financial resources: A longitudinal study, 1983 to 1993
1999,
This research investigated the competing effects of environmental and organizational...
A healthcare staff decision model considering the effects of staff cross-training
1999,
In this study a staff planning model for a health service clinic has been developed...
Impact of internal and external environmental pressures on hospital inefficiency
1999,
This study used stochastic frontier analysis to study variations in inefficiency in US...
The impact of the internal market on hospital efficiency, productivity and service quality
1999,
In this paper we use non-parametric mathematical programming models to compute and...
Patient flows and optimal health-care resource allocation at the macro-level: A dynamic linear programming approach
1999,
In this paper we present a deterministic allocation model in which a patient's...
A descriptive assessment of the production and cost efficiency of general hospitals in Greece
1999,
This paper focuses on the assessment of alternative aspects of the efficiency of 98...
A signalling theory of excessive technological adoption
1999,
Technology adoption has been identified as one of the main elements behind the growth...
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