Country: Netherlands

Found 18376 papers in total
Member risk adjustment for ambulatory episodes of care
1999,
The purpose of this study was to model health-plan member risk based on member...
A level-crossing approach to the solution of the shortest-queue problem
1997,
We develop a two-dimensional extension of the standard level-crossing approach and...
The quick response initiative in the emergency department: Who benefits?
1999,
Objectives: This collaborative project between two community hospitals, a Metropolitan...
Using different response-time requirements to smooth time-varying demand for service
1999,
Many service systems have demand that varies significantly by time of day, making it...
Predictors of Medicare costs in elderly beneficiaries with breast, colorectal, lung, or prostate cancer
1999,
Background: Determining the apportionment of costs of cancer care and identifying...
Efficiency measurement of health care: A review of non-parametric methods and applications
1999,
There has been increasing interest in measuring the productive performance of health...
Estimating the prevalence of injecting drug users on the basis of Markov models of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: Applications to Italian data
1999,
This paper addresses some important issues related to the estimation of the extent of...
Decision support for malaria-control programmes – a system dynamics model
1999,
Although malaria claims millions of casualties every year there are hardly any recent...
Performance of some boundary-seeking mode estimators on the dome bias model
1999,
Expert estimates can be systematically biased for various reasons. The dome...
Automated telephone-administered substance abuse screening for adults in primary care
1999,
Despite a general awareness that screening for substance abuse is an important...
Assessing a team's problem solving ability: Evaluation of the team problem solving assessment tool (TPSAT)
1999,
By employing group consensus development methods, this research identified the...
The determinants of CABG patients' outcomes
1999,
This study examined the self-reported health status of 90 patients who had undergone...
A complete efficiency ranking of decision making units in data envelopment analysis
1999,
The efficiency measures provided by DEA can be used for ranking Decision Making Units...
The use of population attributable risk to estimate the impact of prevention and early detection of type 2 diabetes on population-wide mortality risk in US males
1999,
The Population Attributable Risk (PAR) represents the proportion of the deaths (in a...
Assessment of primary health care access status: An analytic technique for decision making
1999,
Access to health care is an issue that has caught the attention of health care...
Tariff structure of Japanese electric power companies: An empirical analysis using data envelopment analysis
1999,
This research explores a Marginal Cost (MC)-based pricing system, using Data...
The use of patient mix-adjusted control charts to compare in-hospital costs of care
1999,
We introduce a technique for patient mix-adjusting &xmacr; charts and compared...
Characterizing an equitable allocation of shared costs: A data envelopment analysis approach
1999,
In many applications to which DEA could be applied, there is often a fixed or common...
Measuring the performance of operations of Hong Kong’s manufacturing industries
1999,
The relative operational performance of Hong Kong’s manufacturing industries is...
Monte Carlo bounding techniques for determining solution quality in stochastic programs
1999,
A stochastic program SP with solution value z * can be approximately solved by...
Exchange-rate forecasts with simultaneous nearest-neighbour methods: Evidence from the European Monetary System
1999,
In this paper we extend nearest-neighbour predictors to allow for information content...
Asymptotic and bootstrap prediction regions for vector autoregression
1999,
Small sample properties of asymptotic and bootstrap prediction regions for vector...
On the asymmetry of the symmetric mean absolute percentage error
1999,
Several authors have suggested that the use of the mean absolute percentage error...
Nonlinear deterministic forecasting of daily dollar exchange rates
1999,
We perform out-of-sample predictions on several dollar exchange rate returns by using...
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