Keyword: health services

Found 497 papers in total
The When and Why of Abandonment: The Role of Organizational Differences In Medical Technology Life Cycles
The When and Why of Abandonment: The Role of Organizational Differences In Medical Technology Life Cycles
2017,
Although the adoption of new technology has received significant attention in...
Using In Vitro High-Throughput Screening Data for Predicting Benzo[k]Fluoranthene Human Health Hazards
Using In Vitro High-Throughput Screening Data for Predicting Benzo[k]Fluoranthene Human Health Hazards
2017,
Today there are more than 80,000 chemicals in commerce and the environment. The...
Assessment of Health Risk from Historical Use of Cosmetic Talcum Powder
Assessment of Health Risk from Historical Use of Cosmetic Talcum Powder
2017,
This study's objective is to assess the risk of asbestos‐related disease being...
Note on Cournot Competition Under Yield Uncertainty
Note on Cournot Competition Under Yield Uncertainty
2017,
Inspired by the U.S. influenza vaccine market, we formulate a Cournot competition...
Fast Approximation Methods for Online Scheduling of Outpatient Procedure Centers
Fast Approximation Methods for Online Scheduling of Outpatient Procedure Centers
2017,
This paper presents a new model for online decision making. Motivated by the...
Action research: a process for developing professional capacity within a community of practice
Action research: a process for developing professional capacity within a community of practice
2017,
Learning within a community of practice is a common approach for competency...
Pandemic drug rationing model: Nebraska state government case study
Pandemic drug rationing model: Nebraska state government case study
2017,
The avian influenza‐A (bird flu) is fatally active today and could...
Implementing a knowledge management system within an NHS hospital: a case study exploring the roll-out of an electronic patient record (EPR)
Implementing a knowledge management system within an NHS hospital: a case study exploring the roll-out of an electronic patient record (EPR)
2017,
This research aims to contribute to understanding the implementation of knowledge...
Confidence Matters: Self-efficacy Moderates the Credit that Supervisors Give to Adaptive and Proactive Role Behaviours
Confidence Matters: Self-efficacy Moderates the Credit that Supervisors Give to Adaptive and Proactive Role Behaviours
2017,
In complex and uncertain work environments, employees need to not only be proficient...
A dynamic ambulance management model for rural areas
A dynamic ambulance management model for rural areas
2017,
We study the Dynamic Ambulance Management (DAM) problem in which one tries to retain...
Past the Point of Speeding Up: The Negative Effects of Workload Saturation on Efficiency and Patient Severity
Past the Point of Speeding Up: The Negative Effects of Workload Saturation on Efficiency and Patient Severity
2017,
Service organizations face a trade‐off between high utilization and...
Women's and Health Workers’ Voices in Open, Inclusive Communities and Effective Spaces (VOICES): Measuring Governance Outcomes in Reproductive and Maternal Health Programmes
Women's and Health Workers’ Voices in Open, Inclusive Communities and Effective Spaces (VOICES): Measuring Governance Outcomes in Reproductive and Maternal Health Programmes
2017,
Given the growing popularity of the social accountability approach to governance, we...
CUSUM and EWMA Control Charts for Negative Binomial Distribution
CUSUM and EWMA Control Charts for Negative Binomial Distribution
2017,
In public health surveillance, control charts based on the daily number of...
Local and global constraint consistency in personnel rostering
Local and global constraint consistency in personnel rostering
2017,
Personnel rostering is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem in which...
Facility location under service level constraints for heterogeneous customers
Facility location under service level constraints for heterogeneous customers
2017,
We study the problem of locating service facilities to serve heterogeneous customers....
Performance analysis of service systems with priority upgrades
Performance analysis of service systems with priority upgrades
2017,
In this paper, we study the performance of service systems with priority upgrades. We...
Queueing Models of Case Managers
Queueing Models of Case Managers
2017,
Many service systems use case managers, servers who are assigned multiple customers...
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...
Team Familiarity and Productivity in Cardiac Surgery Operations: The Effect of Dispersion, Bottlenecks, and Task Complexity
Team Familiarity and Productivity in Cardiac Surgery Operations: The Effect of Dispersion, Bottlenecks, and Task Complexity
2017,
Fluid teams are commonly used by a variety of organizations to perform similar and...
Information Elicitation and Influenza Vaccine Production
Information Elicitation and Influenza Vaccine Production
2017,
We explore the procurement of influenza vaccines by a government whose objective is to...
A Semi-parametric Transformation Frailty Model for Semi-competing Risks Survival Data
A Semi-parametric Transformation Frailty Model for Semi-competing Risks Survival Data
2017,
In the analysis of semi‐competing risks data interest lies in estimation and...
Benefits of Decreased Mortality Risk from Reductions in Primary Mobile Source Fine Particulate Matter: A Limited Data Approach for Urban Areas Worldwide
Benefits of Decreased Mortality Risk from Reductions in Primary Mobile Source Fine Particulate Matter: A Limited Data Approach for Urban Areas Worldwide
2016,
We developed an approach to estimate the public health benefits resulting from...
A Hybrid Approach for Forecasting Patient Visits in Emergency Department
A Hybrid Approach for Forecasting Patient Visits in Emergency Department
2016,
An accurate forecast of patient visits in emergency departments (EDs) is one of the...
Costs of Health Damage from Atmospheric Emissions of Toxic Metals: Part 1–Methods and Results
Costs of Health Damage from Atmospheric Emissions of Toxic Metals: Part 1–Methods and Results
2016,
Significant quantities of toxic metals are emitted to the air by the incineration of...
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