Reducing Emergency Medical Service response time via the reallocation of ambulance bases [0.03%]
通过重新分配救护车基地来减少紧急医疗服务响应时间
L C Nogueira Jr,L R Pinto,P M S Silva
L C Nogueira Jr
The demand for highly efficient and effective services and consumer goods is an essential prerequisite for modern organizations. In healthcare, efficiency and effectiveness mean reducing disabilities and maintaining human life. One challeng...
An agent-based simulation model to study accountable care organizations [0.03%]
一种用于研究医疗保健组织的基于智能体的仿真模型
Pai Liu,Shinyi Wu
Pai Liu
Creating accountable care organizations (ACOs) has been widely discussed as a strategy to control rapidly rising healthcare costs and improve quality of care; however, building an effective ACO is a complex process involving multiple stakeh...
An operational epidemiological model for calibrating agent-based simulations of pandemic influenza outbreaks [0.03%]
一种校准大流行性流感暴发的个体基础上的仿真的操作型流行病学模型
D Prieto,T K Das
D Prieto
Uncertainty of pandemic influenza viruses continue to cause major preparedness challenges for public health policymakers. Decisions to mitigate influenza outbreaks often involve tradeoff between the social costs of interventions (e.g., scho...
Vivian Valdmanis,Arianna DeNicola,Patrick Bernet
Vivian Valdmanis
In this paper, we assess the capacity of Florida's public health departments. We achieve this by using bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) applied to Johansen's definition of capacity utilization. Our purpose in this paper is to me...
Benchmarking clinical practice in surgery: looking beyond traditional mortality rates [0.03%]
外科手术临床实践基准化：超越传统死亡率指标
Ricardo A S Castro,Pedro N Oliveira,Conceição Silva Portela et al.
Ricardo A S Castro et al.
This paper proposes two new measures to assess performance of surgical practice based on observed mortality: reliability, measured as the area under the ROC curve and a living score, the sum of individual risk among surviving patients, divi...
Time-dependent ambulance allocation considering data-driven empirically required coverage [0.03%]
基于数据驱动的时效性需求覆盖的救护车部署模型研究
Dirk Degel,Lara Wiesche,Sebastian Rachuba et al.
Dirk Degel et al.
Empirical studies considering the location and relocation of emergency medical service (EMS) vehicles in an urban region provide important insight into dynamic changes during the day. Within a 24-hour cycle, the demand, travel time, speed o...
Allocating operating room block time using historical caseload variability [0.03%]
基于历史病例波动分配手术室时段容量
Narges Hosseini,Kevin M Taaffe
Narges Hosseini
Operating room (OR) allocation and planning is one of the most important strategic decisions that OR managers face. The number of ORs that a hospital opens depends on the number of blocks that are allocated to the surgical groups, services,...