Research Catalog

Title

Operations research and health care : a handbook of methods and applications / edited by Margaret L. Brandeau, François Sainfort, William P. Pierskalla.

Publication

Boston, Mass. ; London : Kluwer Academic, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Sainfort, François.
• Brandeau, Margaret L.
• Pierskalla, William P.

Description

viii, 872 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The decision technologies, tools, and theories of Operations Research and Management Science have long been applied to a wide range of issues and problems in health care. To date, however, no single handbook has synthesized the wide applicability of such techniques. Operations Research and Health Care: a Handbook of Methods and Applications now makes available to practitioners, students, and researchers a comprehensive handbook that will help them improve their ability to apply these methodologies. In addition, this handbook presents new state-of-the-art techniques, explores new issues and challenges, and examines new avenues for research."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

International series in operations research & management science ; 70

Uniform Title

International series in operations research & management science ; 70.

Subject

• Operations research
• Medical care
• Medical care > Mathematical models
• Medical care > Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Health care delivery : current problems and future challenges / Margaret L. Brandeau, Francois Sainfort and William P. Pierskalla -- 2. Capacity planning and management in hospitals / Linda V. Green -- 3. Location of health care facilities / Mark S. Daskin and Latoya K. Dean -- 4. Ambulance service planning : simulation and data visualization / Shane G. Henderson and Andrew J. Mason -- 5. Supply chain management of blood banks / William P. Pierskalla -- 6. Evaluating the efficiency of hospitals' perioperative services using DEA / Liam O'Neill and Franklin Dexter -- 7. Benchmarking using DEA : the case of mental health organizations / Yasar A. Ozcan, Elizabeth Merwin, Kwangsoo Lee and Joseph P. Morrissey -- 8. Using simulation in an acute-care hospital : easier said than done / Michael W. Carter and John T. Blake -- 9. Estimating risks to the public health / Rose Baker -- 10. Modeling health outcomes for economic analysis / Thitima Kongnakorn and Francois Sainfort -- 11. Duct tape for decision makers : the use of OR models in pharmacoeconomics / Anke Richter -- 12. Drug policy : insights from mathematical analysis / Jonathan P. Caulkins -- 13. Modeling the costs and effects of maintenance treatment for opiate addiction / Gregory S. Zaric -- 14. Harm reduction in the control of infectious diseases among injection drug users / Harold Pollack -- 15. The cost effectiveness of partially effective HIV vaccines / Douglas K. Owens, Donna M. Edwards, John F. Cavallaro and Ross D. Shachter -- 16. Designing pediatric formularies for childhood immunization using integer programming models / Sheldon H. Jacobson and Edward C. Sewell -- 17. Allocating resources to control infectious diseases / Margaret L. Brandeau -- 18. Microbial risk assessment for drinking water / Stephen E. Chick, Sada Soorapanth and James S. Koopman -- 19. Screening for diabetic retinopathy / Ruth Davies and Sally C. Brailsford -- 20. Decision making for bioterror preparedness : examples from smallpox vaccination policy / Edward H. Kaplan and Lawrence M. Wein -- 21. Models for kidney allocation / Stefanos A. Zenios -- 22. Planning in the face of politics : reshaping children's health services in inner London / Mike Cushman and Jonathan Rosenhead -- 23. Modeling medical treatment using Markov decision processes / Andrew J. Schaefer, Matthew D. Bailey, Steven M. Schechter and Mark S. Roberts -- 24. Dynamic influence diagrams : applications to medical decision modeling / Gordon B. Hazen -- 25. Assessment of the benefits of anesthesia patient risk reduction measures / M. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell -- 26. An asthma policy model / A. David Paltiel, Karen M. Kuntz, Scott T. Weiss and Anne L. Fuhlbrigge -- 27. A Bayesian network to assist mammography interpretation / Daniel L. Rubin, Elizabeth S. Burnside and Ross Shachter -- 28. Optimization and decision support in brachytherapy treatment planning / Eva K. Lee and Marco Zaider -- 29. Radiotherapy treatment design and linear programming / Allen Holder -- 30. Optimization tools for radiation treatment planning in Matlab / Michael C. Ferris, Jinho Lim and David M. Shepard -- 31. Transmission model analysis of non-typeable haemophilus influenzae / James S. Koopman, Ximin Lin, Stephen E. Chick and Janet R. Gilsdorf -- 32. The impact of novel treatments of A[beta] burden in Alzheimer's disease : insights from a mathematical model / David L. Craft, Lawrence M. Wein and Dennis J. Selkoe.

ISBN

• 1402076290 (cased)
• 1402080662 (e-book)

OCLC

• 57514689
• ocm57514689
• SCSB-8887780

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries