Multi-resource allocation and care sequence assignment in patient management: a stochastic programming approach [0.03%]
基于随机规划的患者管理中的多资源分配及护理顺序安排问题研究
Xinyu Yao,Karmel S Shehadeh,Rema Padman
Xinyu Yao
To mitigate outpatient care delivery inefficiencies induced by resource shortages and demand heterogeneity, this paper focuses on the problem of allocating and sequencing multiple medical resources so that patients scheduled for clinical ca...
A machine learning framework for interpretable predictions in patient pathways: The case of predicting ICU admission for patients with symptoms of sepsis [0.03%]
一种用于患者就诊途径的可解释预测的机器学习框架——以预测败血症患者的ICU入住率为例
Sandra Zilker,Sven Weinzierl,Mathias Kraus et al.
Sandra Zilker et al.
Proactive analysis of patient pathways helps healthcare providers anticipate treatment-related risks, identify outcomes, and allocate resources. Machine learning (ML) can leverage a patient's complete health history to make informed decisio...
Leveraging the potential of the German operating room benchmarking initiative for planning: A ready-to-use surgical process data set [0.03%]
利用德国手术室绩效考核计划进行规划：一个现成可用的手术过程数据集
Grigory Korzhenevich,Anne Zander
Grigory Korzhenevich
We present a freely available data set of surgical case mixes and surgery process duration distributions based on processed data from the German Operating Room Benchmarking initiative. This initiative collects surgical process data from ove...
Uttam Karki,Pratik J Parikh
Uttam Karki
A patient fall is one of the adverse events in an inpatient unit of a hospital that can lead to disability and/or mortality. The medical literature suggests that increased visibility of patients by unit nurses is essential to improve patien...
An optimization framework for large-scale screening under limited testing capacity with application to COVID-19 [0.03%]
用于有限测试能力下的大规模筛查的优化框架及在新冠肺炎疫情下应用
Jiayi Lin,Hrayer Aprahamian,George Golovko
Jiayi Lin
We consider the problem of targeted mass screening of heterogeneous populations under limited testing capacity. Mass screening is an essential tool that arises in various settings, e.g., ensuring a safe supply of blood, reducing prevalence ...
Do adjustment costs constrain public healthcare providers' technical efficiency? Evidence from the New Zealand Public Healthcare System [0.03%]
调整成本是否限制了公共医疗提供者的技术效率？来自新西兰公共医疗系统证据
Antony Andrews,Grigorios Emvalomatis
Antony Andrews
Efficiency analysis is crucial in healthcare to optimise resource allocation and enhance patient outcomes. However, the prompt adaptation of inputs can be hindered by adjustment costs, which impact Long-Run Technical Efficiency (LRTE). To b...
Vinicius M Ton,Nathália C O da Silva,Angel Ruiz et al.
Vinicius M Ton et al.
This paper addresses the management of patients' transportation requests within a hospital, a very challenging problem where requests must be scheduled among the available porters so that patients arrive at their destination timely and the ...
Applications of data envelopment analysis in acute care hospitals: a systematic literature review, 1984-2022 [0.03%]
数据分析在急性护理医院中的应用：系统文献回顾，1984-2022年
Dinesh R Pai,Fatma Pakdil,Nasibeh Azadeh-Fard
Dinesh R Pai
This study reviews scholarly publications on data envelopment analysis (DEA) studies on acute care hospital (ACH) efficiency published between 1984 and 2022 in scholarly peer-reviewed journals. We employ systematic literature review (SLR) m...
Optimization of the stroke hospital selection strategy and the distribution of endovascular thrombectomy resources [0.03%]
卒中医院选择策略及血管内取栓资源分布的优化
Chun-Han Wang,Yu-Ching Lee,Ming-Ju Hsieh
Chun-Han Wang
Nowadays, emergency medical technicians (EMTs) decide to send a suspected stroke patient to a primary stroke center (PSC) or to an endovascular thrombectomy (EVT)-capable hospital, based on the Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale (CPSS) and...
The potential of patient-based nurse staffing - a queuing theory application in the neonatal intensive care setting [0.03%]
基于患者的护士配置的潜力 - 排队论在新生儿重症监护中的应用
Sandra Sülz,Andreas Fügener,Michael Becker-Peth et al.
Sandra Sülz et al.
Faced by a severe shortage of nurses and increasing demand for care, hospitals need to optimally determine their staffing levels. Ideally, nurses should be staffed to those shifts where they generate the highest positive value for the quali...