Journal: Health Care Management Science

Found 408 papers in total
Emergency department visits: the cost of trauma centers
Emergency department visits: the cost of trauma centers
2009,
Crowded emergency departments (EDs) have become a serious problem in the current U.S....
A data-integrated simulation model to evaluate nurse–patient assignments
A data-integrated simulation model to evaluate nurse–patient assignments
2009,
This research develops a novel data-integrated sim ulation to evaluate n...
On the effectiveness of care co-ordination services aimed at preventing hospital admissions and emergency attendances
On the effectiveness of care co-ordination services aimed at preventing hospital admissions and emergency attendances
2009,
Finding alternatives to hospital admissions for older people and helping them to live...
Improving patient flow at an outpatient clinic: study of sources of variability and improvement factors
Improving patient flow at an outpatient clinic: study of sources of variability and improvement factors
2009,
This paper focuses on analyzing and improving patient flow at an outpatient clinic of...
Flexible shift scheduling of physicians
Flexible shift scheduling of physicians
2009,
This research addresses a shift scheduling problem in which physicians at a German...
Specialization and competition in healthcare delivery networks
Specialization and competition in healthcare delivery networks
2009,
Hospital networks, which offer multiple services at multiple locations, are...
Understanding the effects of pharmaceutical promotion: A neural network approach guided by genetic algorithm-partial least squares
Understanding the effects of pharmaceutical promotion: A neural network approach guided by genetic algorithm-partial least squares
2008,
With escalating healthcare costs and increasing concerns about optimizing use of...
Pricing of prescription drugs and its impact on physicians' choice behavior
Pricing of prescription drugs and its impact on physicians' choice behavior
2008,
This research presents an analysis of Taiwan's health care market with the focus on...
Determinants of the choice of health care provider in Nigeria
Determinants of the choice of health care provider in Nigeria
2008,
The study investigated the determinants of households’ choice of health care...
Operating room management and operating room productivity: the case of Germany
Operating room management and operating room productivity: the case of Germany
2008,
We examine operating room productivity on the example of hospitals in Germany with...
Restructuring routine elective services to reduce overall capacity requirements within a local health economy
Restructuring routine elective services to reduce overall capacity requirements within a local health economy
2008,
The UK Government has introduced a new class of health service providers called...
A queueing network model to analyze the impact of parallelization of care on patient cycle time
A queueing network model to analyze the impact of parallelization of care on patient cycle time
2008,
The total time a patient spends in an outpatient facility, called the patient cycle...
Optimal ambulance location with random delays and travel times
Optimal ambulance location with random delays and travel times
2008,
We describe an ambulance location optimization model that minimizes the number of...
A survey on statistical methods for health care fraud detection
A survey on statistical methods for health care fraud detection
2008,
Fraud and abuse have led to significant additional expense in the health care system...
Pricing of prescription drugs and its impact on physicians' choice behavior
Pricing of prescription drugs and its impact on physicians' choice behavior
2008,
This research presents an analysis of Taiwan’s health care market with the focus...
A technical note concerning non-adherence to drug therapy: exact expressions for the mean and variance of drug concentration
A technical note concerning non-adherence to drug therapy: exact expressions for the mean and variance of drug concentration
2008,
There is considerable evidence that prescribed drugs are not taken as intended. We...
Quantifying the impact of non-adherence to drug therapy: a technical note concerning an application of a branch and bound algorithm
Quantifying the impact of non-adherence to drug therapy: a technical note concerning an application of a branch and bound algorithm
2008,
Pharmacokinetic models typically rely on a key assumption that patients take their...
An analysis of hospital efficiency and productivity growth using the Luenberger indicator
An analysis of hospital efficiency and productivity growth using the Luenberger indicator
2008,
We analyze hospital efficiency and productivity growth using an innovative approach...
Understanding the effects of pharmaceutical promotion: a neural network approach guided by genetic algorithm-partial least squares
Understanding the effects of pharmaceutical promotion: a neural network approach guided by genetic algorithm-partial least squares
2008,
With escalating healthcare costs and increasing concerns about optimizing use of...
Detecting hospital fraud and claim abuse through diabetic outpatient services
Detecting hospital fraud and claim abuse through diabetic outpatient services
2008,
Hospitals and health care providers tend to get involved in exaggerated and fraudulent...
Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: an example of surgical workload by specialty
Sensitivity of super-efficient data envelopment analysis results to individual decision-making units: an example of surgical workload by specialty
2008,
We use resampling of data to explore the basic statistical properties of...
Efficiency of Thai provincial public hospitals during the introduction of universal health coverage using capitation
Efficiency of Thai provincial public hospitals during the introduction of universal health coverage using capitation
2008,
We investigate the impact of implementing capitated–based Universal Health...
Assessing nursing home care quality through Bayesian networks
Assessing nursing home care quality through Bayesian networks
2008,
This article demonstrates how Bayesian networks can be employed as a tool to assess...
Keeping the noise down: common random numbers for disease simulation modeling
Keeping the noise down: common random numbers for disease simulation modeling
2008,
Disease simulation models are used to conduct decision analyses of the comparative...
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