Keyword: health services

Found 497 papers in total
Electronic medical record compliance and continuity in delivery of care: an empirical investigation in a combat environment
Electronic medical record compliance and continuity in delivery of care: an empirical investigation in a combat environment
2013,
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are central to continuity in delivery of care in a...
Competitive dynamics in pharmaceutical markets: A case study in the chronic cardiac disease market
Competitive dynamics in pharmaceutical markets: A case study in the chronic cardiac disease market
2013,
A modelling project involved system dynamics simulation of chronic cardiac disease in...
A Dispatching Model for Server‐to‐Customer Systems That Balances Efficiency and Equity
A Dispatching Model for Server‐to‐Customer Systems That Balances Efficiency and Equity
2013,
The decision about which servers to dispatch to which customers is an important aspect...
Multiresource Allocation Scheduling in Dynamic Environments
Multiresource Allocation Scheduling in Dynamic Environments
2013,
Motivated by service capacity‐management problems in healthcare contexts, we...
A Lagrangian heuristic algorithm for a public healthcare facility location problem
A Lagrangian heuristic algorithm for a public healthcare facility location problem
2013,
We consider a healthcare facility location problem in which there are two types of...
Clustering, Agency Costs and Operating Efficiency: Evidence from Nursing Home Chains
Clustering, Agency Costs and Operating Efficiency: Evidence from Nursing Home Chains
2013,
Models of horizontal integration typically describe a trade‐off between...
Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation
Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation
2013,
We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength...
Bed management in a Critical Care Unit
Bed management in a Critical Care Unit
2013,
One of the main problems facing hospital managers is in coping with the variability in...
Accumulating a Portfolio of Experience: The Effect of Focal and Related Experience on Surgeon Performance
Accumulating a Portfolio of Experience: The Effect of Focal and Related Experience on Surgeon Performance
2012,
One key driver of improvement in surgical outcomes is a surgeon's prior experience....
Revolution, evolution, or status quo? Guidelines for efficiency measurement in health care
Revolution, evolution, or status quo? Guidelines for efficiency measurement in health care
2012,
This paper discusses ways forward in terms of making efficiency measurement in the...
Bias in White: A Longitudinal Natural Experiment Measuring Changes in Discrimination
Bias in White: A Longitudinal Natural Experiment Measuring Changes in Discrimination
2012,
Many professions are plagued by disparities in service delivery. Racial disparities in...
A Theoretical Analysis of Smoking and Alcoholism
A Theoretical Analysis of Smoking and Alcoholism
2012,
A mathematical model for the spread of alcoholism and smoking is designed and analysed...
A combined optimization–simulation approach to the master surgical scheduling problem
A combined optimization–simulation approach to the master surgical scheduling problem
2013,
This paper addresses the master surgical scheduling problem. First, we present a mixed...
Policy as a struggle for meaning: disentangling knowledge translation across international health contexts
Policy as a struggle for meaning: disentangling knowledge translation across international health contexts
2011,
Over the last decade, research in medical science has focused on knowledge translation...
Indicators at the interface: managing policymaker‐researcher collaboration
Indicators at the interface: managing policymaker‐researcher collaboration
2011,
The knowledge transfer literature encourages partnerships between researchers and...
Ten years after: Interference of hospital slack in process performance benefits of quality practices
Ten years after: Interference of hospital slack in process performance benefits of quality practices
2012,
We investigate the long‐term relationship between an organization's quality...
Do Small-Group Health Insurance Regulations Influence Small Business Size?
Do Small-Group Health Insurance Regulations Influence Small Business Size?
2012,
State small‐group health insurance reforms, implemented in the 1990s, aimed at...
Investigating the role of a Web‐based tool to promote collective knowledge in medical communities
Investigating the role of a Web‐based tool to promote collective knowledge in medical communities
2012,
The paper reports a case study where a relatively lightweight technology in the form...
Decision support in pre‐hospital stroke care operations: A case of using simulation to improve eligibility of acute stroke patients for thrombolysis treatment
Decision support in pre‐hospital stroke care operations: A case of using simulation to improve eligibility of acute stroke patients for thrombolysis treatment
2013,
Stroke is the third most common cause of death and the sixth most common cause of...
Simulating neonatal intensive care capacity in British Columbia
Simulating neonatal intensive care capacity in British Columbia
2013,
Each year, a small number of expectant mothers with high‐risk pregnancies in...
Intellectual capital and knowledge sharing: the mediating role of organisational knowledge‐sharing climate
Intellectual capital and knowledge sharing: the mediating role of organisational knowledge‐sharing climate
2011,
Healthcare organisations are facing the constant trade off to contain expenditures...
Knowledge management in a small knowledge intensive organisation: research design process at the Cochrane Child Health Field
Knowledge management in a small knowledge intensive organisation: research design process at the Cochrane Child Health Field
2011,
At the Cochrane Child Health Field, we embarked on a complex project to develop short...
Monitoring elderly people with the robocare domestic environment: interaction synthesis and user evaluation
Monitoring elderly people with the robocare domestic environment: interaction synthesis and user evaluation
2011,
This article describes aspects of a fully implemented artificial intelligence (AI)...
Bicriteria efficiency/equity hierarchical location models for public service application
Bicriteria efficiency/equity hierarchical location models for public service application
2013,
As is often the case in healthcare provision, public services may offer facilities at...
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