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IIE Transactions articles from September 2008
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IIE Transactions archives from September 2008
Foreword.
September 1, 2008... We are pleased to present this special healthcare issue of IIE Transactions. While industrial engineering and operations research have a long history within health care, a significant need exists for a much broader use of systems engineering...
Appointment scheduling in health care: challenges and opportunities.
September 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
The health care industry represents approximately 15% of the gross domestic product of the United States. Health care expenditures are growing at a rate such that the amount of public money needed to finance health care,...
A stochastic overbooking model for outpatient clinical scheduling with no-shows.
September 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
Healthcare currently consumes 15% of the US Gross Domestic Product and is expected to reach 19% within the coming decade (Centers for Medicare and Office of the Actuary Medicaid Services, 2007). These costs are due to...
Column generation approach to operating theater planning with elective and emergency patients.
September 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
A hospital operating theater generally admits two categories of patients: elective patients, who can be planned in advance and emergency patients, who arrive randomly during the day and must be served urgently. One of the...
Modeling hospital discharge policies for patients with pneumonia-related sepsis.
September 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
Sepsis is a disease that results from an overwhelming inflammatory response to infection within the body. By overproducing or producing the wrong proportions of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory molecules (also known as...
A modeling framework for replacing medical therapies.
September 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) provide a natural modeling framework for sequential, stochastic decision problems (Puterman, 1994). They have traditionally been applied in industrial settings such as machine maintenance...
New patient-centered models of quality-of-life measures for evaluation of interventions for multi-stage diseases.
September 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
This paper presents the application of customer-centered multi-state reliability models (Boedigheimer and Kapur, 1994; Brunelle and Kapur, 1997; Lisnianski and Levitin, 2003) on the quality-of-life measure for patients with...
Optimization of community health center locations and service offerings with statistical need estimation.
September 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
1.1. Motivation
The delivery of health services in the United States is considered by many to be at a crisis point due to both the continued rising costs and the disparities in health status and receipt of preventative...
A large-scale simulation model of pandemic influenza outbreaks for development of dynamic mitigation strategies.(Report)
September 1, 2008... 1. Introduction
In the event of an avian influenza pandemic outbreak, about 90 000 000 people in the US are expected to be ill and in need of assistance. Most existing contingency plans by the Center for Disease Control and Health and...