Keyword: health services

Found 497 papers in total
An empirical analysis on robust Vehicle Routing Problem: a case study on drug industry
An empirical analysis on robust Vehicle Routing Problem: a case study on drug industry
2010,
This study considers the application of Robust Optimisation (RO) to a basic Vehicle...
Dynamic Allocation of Pharmaceutical Detailing and Sampling for Long-Term Profitability
Dynamic Allocation of Pharmaceutical Detailing and Sampling for Long-Term Profitability
2010,
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry spent upwards of $18 billion on marketing...
For a few cents more: Why supersize unhealthy food?
For a few cents more: Why supersize unhealthy food?
2010,
Health-care experts believe that increases in portion sizes served by food vendors...
Detailing vs. direct-to-consumer advertising in the prescription pharmaceutical industry
Detailing vs. direct-to-consumer advertising in the prescription pharmaceutical industry
2010,
The pharmaceutical industry has always used sales representatives to target physicians...
Resource and revenue management in nonprofit operations
Resource and revenue management in nonprofit operations
2009,
Nonprofit firms sometimes engage in for-profit activities for the purpose of...
An interregional system dynamics model of animal disease control: applications to foot‐and‐mouth disease in the Southern Cone of South America
An interregional system dynamics model of animal disease control: applications to foot‐and‐mouth disease in the Southern Cone of South America
2008,
Foot‐and‐mouth disease (FMD) is costly for meat producers,...
Priority assignment under imperfect information on customer type identities
Priority assignment under imperfect information on customer type identities
2009,
In many service systems, customers are not served in the order they arrive, but...
The efficiency of health and education expenditures in the Philippines
The efficiency of health and education expenditures in the Philippines
2009,
This paper attempts to measure the efficiency of provinces in the Philippines in...
Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death
Personal Decisions Are the Leading Cause of Death
2008,
This paper analyzes the relationships between personal decisions and premature deaths...
Robust Management of Motion Uncertainty in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
Robust Management of Motion Uncertainty in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
2008,
Radiation therapy is subject to uncertainties that need to be accounted for when...
Operations research advances cancer therapeutics
Operations research advances cancer therapeutics
2008,
Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), the world's oldest private...
Disseminating emergency preparedness planning models as automatically generated custom spreadsheets
Disseminating emergency preparedness planning models as automatically generated custom spreadsheets
2008,
When public health officials requested OR models to help county health departments...
Optimizing chemotherapy scheduling by iteratively solving a recurrence equation
Optimizing chemotherapy scheduling by iteratively solving a recurrence equation
2008,
We illustrate how an iterative method and the idea of recurrence can be employed to...
Enacting computer workaround practices within a medication dispensing system
Enacting computer workaround practices within a medication dispensing system
2008,
Computer workarounds in health information systems (HIS) threaten the potential for...
The multiple location of transfer points
The multiple location of transfer points
2008,
In this paper, we investigate the location of several transfer points to serve as...
Elicitation from large, heterogeneous expert panels: Using multiple uncertainty measures to characterize information quality for decision analysis
Elicitation from large, heterogeneous expert panels: Using multiple uncertainty measures to characterize information quality for decision analysis
2007,
Decision analysts are frequently called on to help inform decision makers in cases...
Locating emergency services with different priorities: the priority queuing covering location problem
Locating emergency services with different priorities: the priority queuing covering location problem
2008,
Previous covering models for emergency service consider all the calls to be of the...
Stakeholder management in IOS projects: analysis of an attempt to implement an electronic patient file
Stakeholder management in IOS projects: analysis of an attempt to implement an electronic patient file
2008,
Implementing an inter-organizational system (IOS) requires significant organizational...
Costs and benefits of controlling quarantine diseases: a bio-economic modeling approach
Costs and benefits of controlling quarantine diseases: a bio-economic modeling approach
2008,
This article describes a bio-economic model to quantify the costs and benefits of...
Resilience of super users' mental models of enterprise-wide systems
Resilience of super users' mental models of enterprise-wide systems
2008,
Research on information system training has focused primarily on methods, while...
Explaining changes in learning and work practice following the adoption of online learning: a human agency perspective
Explaining changes in learning and work practice following the adoption of online learning: a human agency perspective
2008,
Online learning applications are typically introduced with expectations that they will...
Evaluating the Deming management model of total quality in services
Evaluating the Deming management model of total quality in services
2005,
This article uses the Deming management model developed by Anderson et al. as an...
The effects of statistical information on risk and ambiguity attitudes, and on rational insurance decisions
The effects of statistical information on risk and ambiguity attitudes, and on rational insurance decisions
2007,
This paper presents a field study into the effects of statistical information...
Finding good nurse duty schedules: a case study
Finding good nurse duty schedules: a case study
2007,
Constructing duty schedules for nurses at large hospitals is a difficult problem. The...
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