P Keskinocak, N Savva - Manufacturing & Service …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Healthcare systems throughout the world are under pressure to widen access, improve efficiency and quality of care, and reduce inequity. Achieving these conflicting goals requires …
K Arifoğlu, CS Tang - Manufacturing & Service Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: The US influenza (flu) vaccine supply chain is decentralized and experiences frequent supply and demand mismatches caused by two key factors:(1) the …
Financial incentives are commonly used to encourage improvements in quality. However, the presence of spillovers can make managing these incentives difficult. Using a large …
TCY Chan, SY Huang, V Sarhangian - Operations Research, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study a control problem for queueing systems in which customers may return for additional episodes of service after their initial service completion. At each service …
L Gao, W Zhang, Y Chen… - Production and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Dynamic treatment regimes improve health outcomes by tailoring each treatment to a patient's evolving condition, but they also allow providers to learn and game the system over …
The US healthcare system is undergoing a period of substantial change, with hospitals purchasing many physician practices (“vertical integration”). In theory, this vertical …
The US healthcare system is undergoing a period of substantial change with hospitals purchasing many physician practices (“vertical integration”). In theory, this vertical …
Outcomes-based reimbursement is one active area of theory and practice that supports roader efforts to improve health value by rewarding provider services with better health …
Nearly 20% of patients are readmitted to hospitals within a specific time period after hospital discharge. High readmission rates place an unnecessary burden on the healthcare system …