Background. The Operations Research Interest Group (ORIG) within the Society of Medical
Decision Making (SMDM) is a multidisciplinary interest group of professionals that …

Efficient health care delivery systems aim to match resources to demand for services over
time. Resource allocation decisions must be made under stochastic uncertainty. This …

In recent decades there have been many advances in methods for the prevention,
diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. These advances have resulted in improved health …

Background: Markov decision process (MDP) models are powerful tools. They enable the
derivation of optimal treatment policies but may incur long computational times and generate …

This paper explores how the capacity of colonoscopy services should be allocated for
screening and diagnosis of colorectal cancer to improve health outcomes. Both of these …

Type 2 diabetes has an increasing prevalence and high cost of treatment. The goal of type 2
diabetes treatment is to control patients' blood glucose level by pharmacological …

Very low birth weight (VLBW) infants (birth weight< < 1500 grams) are at risk of postnatal
growth restriction. Understanding how nutrition is associated with growth and how these …

This chapter presents an overview of disease screening problems and operations research
applications on different aspects of the problem. We first discuss operations research …

This paper investigates problems of disease prevention and epidemic control (DPEC), in
which we optimize two sets of decisions:(i) vaccinating individuals and (ii) closing locations …

Abstract The United States (US) is experiencing rapid growth in its older adult population,
who may suffer from multiple chronic diseases, injuries, and impairments. To meet with the …