Importance The effect of surgical complications on hospital finances is unclear. Objective To
determine the relationship between major surgical complications and per-encounter hospital …

The admission of emergency patients in a hospital is unscheduled, urgent, and takes priority
over elective patients, who are usually scheduled several days in advance. Hospital beds …

Background As healthcare systems strive for efficiency, hospital “length of stay outliers” have
the potential to significantly impact a hospital's overall utilization. There is a tendency to …

Background and Objectives Accurate preoperative staging helps avert morbidity, mortality,
and cost associated with non‐therapeutic laparotomy in gastric cancer (GC) patients …

In recent years, governments and other stakeholders have increasingly used administrative
data for measuring healthcare outcomes and building rankings of health care providers …

Reducing the length of hospitalization is a shared priority for patients, clinicians, and other
health care stakeholders. However, patients can remain hospitalized after being “medically …

Objectives: Hypotension is overlooked because it is often harmless, easily reversed, and
can have few or even no symptoms. However, complications of untreated hypotension are …

Plastic surgeons are frequently faced with difficult and challenging soft tissue defects in all
areas of the body. To reconstruct these defects, there are many operative approaches …

Techniques for expanding skin and soft tissue are widely used to repair damaged areas
since they facilitate the provision of new, additional skin tissue with similar quality, texture …

This chapter discusses the use of operations research techniques such as optimization,
simulations and predictive analytics in healthcare. The chapter introduces optimization …