Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (262))

Annotation This book offers a comprehensive reference guide to operations research theory and applications in health care systems. It provides readers with all the necessary tools for solving health care problems. The respective chapters, written by prominent researchers, explain a wealth of both basic and advanced concepts of operations research for the management of operating rooms, intensive care units, supply chain, emergency medical service, human resources, lean health care, and procurement. To foster a better understanding, the chapters include relevant examples or case studies. Taken together, they form an excellent reference guide for researchers, lecturers and postgraduate students pursuing research on health care management problems. The book presents a dynamic snapshot on the field that is expected to stimulate new directions and stimulate new ideas and developments Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Taxonomy of Operations Research Studies in Healthcare Management (Serhat Tüzün, Y. Ilker Topcu)....Pages 3-21 A Comprehensive Survey on Healthcare Management (Sezi Cevik Onar, Basar Oztaysi, Cengiz Kahraman)....Pages 23-51 Front Matter ....Pages 53-53 The Real Time Management of Operating Rooms (Davide Duma, Roberto Aringhieri)....Pages 55-79 Mixed Fuzzy Clustering for Deriving Predictive Models in Intensive Care Units (Cátia M. Salgado, Susana M. Vieira, João M. C. Sousa)....Pages 81-99 Operations Research for Occupancy Modeling at Hospital Wards and Its Integration into Practice (N. M. van de Vrugt, A. J. Schneider, M. E. Zonderland, D. A. Stanford, R. J. Boucherie)....Pages 101-137 Front Matter ....Pages 139-139 Evaluating Healthcare System Efficiency of OECD Countries: A DEA-Based Study (Zehra Önen, Serpil Sayın)....Pages 141-158 Healthcare Expenditure Prediction in Turkey by Using Genetic Algorithm Based Grey Forecasting Models (Tuncay Özcan, Fatih Tüysüz)....Pages 159-190 The Impact of Social Networks in Developing and Managing Chronic Care Models (Marina Resta, Elisabetta Arato)....Pages 191-208 Front Matter ....Pages 209-209 Design and Planning of Organ Transplantation Networks (Sahar Ahmadvand, Mir Saman Pishvaee)....Pages 211-240 Blood Supply Chain Management and Future Research Opportunities (Ali Ekici, Okan Örsan Özener, Elvin Çoban)....Pages 241-266 Vaccine Supply Management (Nafiseh Shamsi G., S. Ali Torabi)....Pages 267-294 Front Matter ....Pages 295-295 OR Applications in Disease Screening (Evrim Didem Güneş, E. Lerzan Örmeci)....Pages 297-325 Classification of Cancer Data: Analyzing Gene Expression Data Using a Fuzzy Decision Tree Algorithm (Simone A. Ludwig, Stjepan Picek, Domagoj Jakobovic)....Pages 327-347 Front Matter ....Pages 349-349 Efficiency of Diabetes Treatment (Peter Wanke, Emel Aktas)....Pages 351-377 A Multiobjective Solution Method for Radiation Treatment Planning (Gokhan Kirlik, Serpil Sayın, Hao Howard Zhang)....Pages 379-392 Front Matter ....Pages 393-393 OR Models for Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Management (S. M. Gholami-Zanjani, M. S. Pishvaee, S. Ali Torabi)....Pages 395-421 Health Informatics (I. Burak Parlak, A. Cağrı Tolga)....Pages 423-460 OR Applications in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management (Abbas Ahmadi, Mohammad Mousazadeh, S. Ali Torabi, Mir Saman Pishvaee)....Pages 461-491 A Categorical DEA Framework for Evaluating Medical Tourism Efficiency of “Top Destinations” (Melis Almula Karadayi, Mine Isik)....Pages 493-511 Front Matter ....Pages 513-513 Healthcare Human Resource Planning (John Pastor Ansah, Victoria Koh, Steffen Bayer, Paul Harper, David Matchar)....Pages 515-541 Lean Healthcare (S. Ali Torabi, Shirin Haddad Pour, Nafiseh Shamsi G.)....Pages 543-568 Procurement Management in Healthcare Systems (Abbas Ahmadi, Mir Saman Pishvaee, S. Ali Torabi)....Pages 569-598 Back Matter ....Pages 599-604 This edited volume captures and communicates the best thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services -- providing care when and where it is needed most -- through application of state-of-the-art scheduling systems. Over 12 chapters, the authors cover aspects of setting appointments, allocating healthcare resources, and planning to ensure that capacity matches needs for care. A central theme of the book is increasing healthcare efficiency so that both the cost of care is reduced and more patients have access to care. This can be accomplished through reduction of idle time, lessening the time needed to provide services and matching resources to the needs where they can have the greatest possible impact on health. Within their chapters, authors address: 1) Use of scheduling to improve healthcare efficiency; 2) Objectives, constraints and mathematical formulations; 3) Key methods and techniques for creating schedules; 4) Recent developments that improve the available problem solving methods; 5) Actual applications, demonstrating how the methods can be used; 6) Future directions in which the field of research is heading. Collectively, the chapters provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of models and methods for scheduling the delivery of patient care for all parts of the healthcare system. Chapter topics include setting appointments for ambulatory care and outpatient procedures, surgical scheduling, nurse scheduling, bed management and allocation, medical supply logistics and routing and scheduling for home healthcare The most difficult part of making decisions in the health care field on all levels (national, regional, institutional, patient) is linked to the very complexity of the system itself, to the intrinsic uncertainty involved and its dynamic nature. This requires not only the ability to analyze and interpret a large amount of information but also arrange it so that it becomes a cognitive base for appropriate decision-making. Moreover, decisions in the health care field are subjected to many challenges and constraints: fast change and uncertain outcomes, aging population, increasing citizen expectations, equity considerations and limited resources. Operations research, statistical and economic-related quantitative methods supply these decisions making tools and methodology. The contributed book presents a collection of applications to concrete situations detailing the problem area, the methodology employed, the implementation and results. Each topic addressed in the book will be structured in such a way that an interdisciplinary and wide audience will be able to use the materials presented. As an example the book chapters will address health policies issues, planning health services, epidemiology and disease modelling, home-care modelling, logistics in health care, capacity planning, quality and appropriateness. "The Big Book of Simulation Modeling" is the only book that comprehensively presents all three methods, or paradigms, in simulation Agent Based, System Dynamics, and Discrete Event. It explains how to choose the right constructs of the modeling language to create a representation of a real world system that is suitable for risk-free dynamic experiments. The book is based on the modeling languages supported by AnyLogic, the software tool that enables a modeler to utilize all three methods and is the only one with the capability to combine them together in a single model. Written by the creator of the software, this book is the most in-depth information resource on AnyLogic and utilization of multimethod modeling that currently exists. It covers topics from building simple Agent Based models with statecharts to developing data exchange with external programs. With over 100 hands-on, step-by-step examples with different levels of complexity and various application areas, this book is extremely useful to both simulation professionals and students learning simulation modeling. Annotation This edited title collates and communicates the latest thinking on how to improve healthcare by improving the delivery of services, thus providing care when and where it is needed most