Keyword: medicine

Found 353 papers in total
Operating theatre modelling: integrating social measures
2015,
Hospital resource modelling literature is primarily focussed on productivity and...
Simulation analysis of hospital intensive care unit reimbursement policies from the triple bottom line perspective
2015,
We consider how alternative intensive care unit (ICU) cost reimbursement policies...
Predictive modelling of telehealth system deployment
2015,
Healthcare systems are facing intense challenges to maintain and reinforce their...
The role of dynamic trade-offs in creating safety–A qualitative study of handover across care boundaries in emergency care
2015,
Qualitative study of emergency care handover across boundaries. Description of...
Neurofuzzy models to automate the grading of old-age depression
2014,
Manual grading of depression is sometimes difficult due to the subjective...
An Adaptive Sequential Experimentation Methodology for Expensive Response Surface Optimization ‐ Case Study in Traumatic Brain Injury Modeling
2014,
The preset response surface designs often lack the ability to adapt the design based...
Evaluating policies using agent-based simulations: investigating policies for continuity of care
2014,
Anticipating effects of proposed clinical policies is a difficult task. This study...
A tabu search heuristic approach for allocating operating room capacity
2014,
In this paper, two methodologies for allocating hospital operating room (OR)...
Passive cold devices for vaccine supply chains
2015,
A major priority in many low and middle income countries is the eradication of...
Inverse optimization for assessing emerging technologies in breast cancer screening
2015,
Identifying the optimal screening strategies for breast cancer, the second leading...
Exploring the influence of the online physician service delivery process on patient satisfaction
2015,
Online health communities provide platforms for patients to consult physicians online...
A bilevel formulation of the pediatric vaccine pricing problem
2016,
We consider the characterization of optimal pricing strategies for a pediatric vaccine...
Global dynamics of vector-borne diseases with horizontal transmission in host population
2011,
The paper presents the dynamical features of a vector–host epidemic model with...
Public and health professionals’ misconceptions about the dynamics of body weight gain/loss
2014,
Human body energy storage operates as a stock-and-flow system with inflow (food...
Optimal staffing of specialized programme trainees under uncertainty
2015,
We propose a stochastic model and provide an easy‐to‐implement...
Ebola in West Africa: Model-Based Exploration of Social Psychological Effects and Interventions
2015,
In the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, sociocultural, psychological and...
Exact Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Quadratic and Cubic Polynomial Regression with Applications in Dose Response Study
2013,
Exact simultaneous confidence bands (SCBs) for a polynomial regression model are...
Patient safety and satisfaction drivers in emergency departments re-visited ‐ an empirical analysis using structural equation modeling
2014,
How can emergency department (ED) decision makers contribute to increase patient...
Inferring breast cancer concomitant diagnosis and comorbidities from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample using social network analysis
2014,
Breast cancer is a complex disease and may be accompanied by other multiple health...
Real-time location systems, normative messaging and modifying clinician behavior: a pilot study
2014,
Modifying physician behavior is challenging. Normative feedback may offer an...
Virtual reality for medical training: the state-of-the-art
2015,
Virtual reality (VR) medical simulations deliver a tailored learning experience that...
On the Issuing Policies for Perishable Items such as Red Blood Cells and Platelets in Blood Service
2014,
Red blood cells (RBCs) and platelets are examples of perishable items with a fixed...
A stochastic inventory routing problem for infectious medical waste collection
2014,
We consider the problem of designing a logistic system to organize adequate collection...
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