Keyword: medicine

Found 353 papers in total
Advances and trends for the development of ambient-assisted living platforms
Advances and trends for the development of ambient-assisted living platforms
2017,
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Ambient Intelligence (AmI) try to achieve a future...
Ontological modelling and rule-based reasoning for the provision of personalized patient education
Ontological modelling and rule-based reasoning for the provision of personalized patient education
2017,
Current approaches to patient education provide generic standardized materials to all...
Case mix planning in hospitals: a review and future agenda
Case mix planning in hospitals: a review and future agenda
2017,
The case mix planning problem deals with choosing the ideal composition and volume of...
A stochastic model of acute-care decisions based on patient and provider heterogeneity
A stochastic model of acute-care decisions based on patient and provider heterogeneity
2017,
The primary cause of preventable death in many hospitals is the failure to recognize...
Complementary effect of patient volume and quality of care on hospital cost efficiency
Complementary effect of patient volume and quality of care on hospital cost efficiency
2017,
This study explores the direct effect of an increase in patient volume in a hospital...
Strategic level proton therapy patient admission planning: a Markov decision process modeling approach
Strategic level proton therapy patient admission planning: a Markov decision process modeling approach
2017,
A relatively new consideration in proton therapy planning is the requirement that the...
An agent-based model of social networks for evaluating asthma control interventions on reducing the emergency department visits
An agent-based model of social networks for evaluating asthma control interventions on reducing the emergency department visits
2017,
Asthma has become a leading cause of childhood disability and school absenteeism in...
Building dynamic 3D visualizations through ontology-guided interactions with domain knowledge and simulation models
Building dynamic 3D visualizations through ontology-guided interactions with domain knowledge and simulation models
2017,
We need to find better ways of allowing non‐computing experts to construct...
Rapid diagnoses at the breast center of Jeroen Bosch Hospital: a case study invoking queueing theory and discrete event simulation
Rapid diagnoses at the breast center of Jeroen Bosch Hospital: a case study invoking queueing theory and discrete event simulation
2017,
When suspected tissue is discovered in a patient’s breast, swiftly available...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections: challenges and opportunities for the application of systems engineering
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections: challenges and opportunities for the application of systems engineering
2017,
In the United States about 100,000 people die annually from...
Improving the process efficiency of catheterization laboratories using simulation
Improving the process efficiency of catheterization laboratories using simulation
2017,
As the size of the population suffering from cardiac problems increases, the number of...
Motivating Process Compliance Through Individual Electronic Monitoring: An Empirical Examination of Hand Hygiene in Healthcare
Motivating Process Compliance Through Individual Electronic Monitoring: An Empirical Examination of Hand Hygiene in Healthcare
2017,
The design and use of standard processes are foundational recommendations in many...
Enabling better management of patients: discrete event simulation combined with the STAR approach
Enabling better management of patients: discrete event simulation combined with the STAR approach
2017,
Squeezed budgets and funding cuts are expected to become a feature of the healthcare...
Measuring the price of anarchy in critical care unit interactions
Measuring the price of anarchy in critical care unit interactions
2017,
Hospital throughput is often studied and optimised in isolation, ignoring the...
Managing Patient Admissions in a Neurology Ward
Managing Patient Admissions in a Neurology Ward
2017,
We study patient admission policies in a neurology ward where there are multiple types...
Non-parametric regression in clustered multistate current status data with informative cluster size
Non-parametric regression in clustered multistate current status data with informative cluster size
2017,
Datasets examining periodontal disease records current (disease) status information of...
A quartet method based on variable neighborhood search for biomedical literature extraction and clustering
A quartet method based on variable neighborhood search for biomedical literature extraction and clustering
2017,
Medline/PubMed is the largest reference database collecting, organizing, and analyzing...
Enumeration and Cartesian Product Decomposition of Alternate Optimal Fluxes in Cellular Metabolism
Enumeration and Cartesian Product Decomposition of Alternate Optimal Fluxes in Cellular Metabolism
2017,
We introduce a framework for finding and analyzing all optimal solutions to a...
When Is a Network Epidemic Hard to Eliminate?
When Is a Network Epidemic Hard to Eliminate?
2017,
We consider the propagation of a contagion process (‘epidemic’) on a...
Imaging Room and Beyond: The Underlying Economics Behind Physicians’ Test-Ordering Behavior in Outpatient Services
Imaging Room and Beyond: The Underlying Economics Behind Physicians’ Test-Ordering Behavior in Outpatient Services
2017,
Motivated by a collaborative study with one of the most comprehensive ocular imaging...
A Proportional Hazards Regression Model for the Subdistribution with Covariates-adjusted Censoring Weight for Competing Risks Data
A Proportional Hazards Regression Model for the Subdistribution with Covariates-adjusted Censoring Weight for Competing Risks Data
2016,
With competing risks data, one often needs to assess the treatment and covariate...
Selection Strategy for Covariance Structure of Random Effects in Linear Mixed-effects Models
Selection Strategy for Covariance Structure of Random Effects in Linear Mixed-effects Models
2016,
Linear mixed‐effects models are a powerful tool for modelling longitudinal data...
Dynamic Probability Control Limits for Lower and Two-Sided Risk-Adjusted Bernoulli CUSUM Charts
Dynamic Probability Control Limits for Lower and Two-Sided Risk-Adjusted Bernoulli CUSUM Charts
2017,
Because of its advantages of design, performance, and effectiveness in reducing the...
Asymmetric Bertrand-Edgeworth-Chamberlin Competition with Linear Demand: A Pediatric Vaccine Pricing Model
Asymmetric Bertrand-Edgeworth-Chamberlin Competition with Linear Demand: A Pediatric Vaccine Pricing Model
2016,
Pricing strategies in the U.S. pediatric vaccines market are studied using a...
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