IIE Transactions

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1. Modeling hospital discharge policies for patients with pneumonia-related... 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 ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 2. Foreword. 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, ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 3. Appointment scheduling in health care: challenges and opportunities. 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 ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 4. A stochastic overbooking model for outpatient clinical scheduling with... 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 ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 5. A modeling framework for replacing medical therapies. 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 ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 6. Column generation approach to operating theater planning with elective and... 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 ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 7. New patient-centered models of quality-of-life measures for evaluation of... 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 ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 8. Optimization of community health center locations and service offerings... 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 ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE) 9. A large-scale simulation model of pandemic influenza outbreaks for... 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 ... (PERIODICAL ARTICLE)
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