T Hobson
T Hobson
The financial modelling packages for microcomputers can be considered as falling into one of three categories:- visual spread sheets, micro base structured models and structured models which are compatible across, and allow communications b...
B P Mathews,C D Waters
B P Mathews
Community nurses spend a relatively large proportion of their time travelling. If this could be reduced, benefits would include increased time for direct patient care and reduced costs. This paper describes a pilot study in the Dumfries and...
G Vassilacopoulos
G Vassilacopoulos
A method is proposed for allocating doctors to weekly shifts in an accident and emergency department of a hospital. Two models, solved by dynamic programming, are used. The first finds the optimal solution to the problem of allocating docto...
Investigating outpatient departments: implementable policies and qualitative approaches [0.03%]
门诊部调查：可实施的政策和定性方法
R M O&#x;Keefe
R M O&#x;Keefe
Modelling the operation of outpatient departments, with the aim of devising an appointment system that would reduce patient waiting time, was an early application area for O.R. Yet outpatients still spend an excessive amount of time waiting...
R Davies
R Davies
A variety of stochastic and deterministic non-optimizing techniques have been used both predictively and for comparing policy options for patient treatment. Models of the system of the treatment of kidney patients are reviewed and are shown...
Solving the combined zoning and location problem for several emergency units [0.03%]
若干紧急单位的区划与选址联合问题及其算法研究
R Benveniste
R Benveniste
This paper discusses methods for the solution of the combined zoning and location problem for several emergency units. This is a stochastic optimization problem. The stochastic aspects include ordered preference of servers. A constraint of ...
L Berghmans,P Schoovaerts,J Teghem Jr
L Berghmans
A new city is under construction in a developing country. The town will be organized in modules, and the population projection is established till the 90s. The ratio of medical personnel to inhabitants is fixed according to health policy cr...
Balancing the failure modes in the electronic circuit of a cardiac pacemaker: a decision analysis [0.03%]
心脏起搏器电路故障模式的决策分析
B Ronen,J S Pliskin,S Feldman
B Ronen
Cardiac pacemaker malfunctions are of continuous concern to the medical profession as well as to the electronics industry. Certain failures in cardiac pacemaker performance are critical and can result in patient deaths. Cardiac pacemakers a...
Specialty costs in English hospitals--a statistical approach based upon a cost component model [0.03%]
英国医院特色科室成本的统计方法-基于成本构成模型
T C Bailey,J R Ashford
T C Bailey
A previous paper in this Journal compared various regression models designed to relate hospital recurrent expenditure to corresponding measures of hospital activity and services provided. The paper concluded by discussing briefly an alterna...