Kim E Van Oorschot,Luk N Van Wassenhove,Marianne Jahre
Kim E Van Oorschot
Testing for COVID-19 is a key intervention that supports tracking and isolation to prevent further infections. However, diagnostic tests are a scarce and finite resource, so abundance in one country can quickly lead to shortages in others, ...
Pausing transplants in the face of a global pandemic: Patient survival implications [0.03%]
面对全球大流行暂停移植：患者的生存影响
Minmin Zhang,Guihua Wang,Jun Li et al.
Minmin Zhang et al.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted normal operating procedures at transplant centers. With the possibility that COVID-19 infection carries an overall 4% mortality rate and potentially a 24% mortality rate among t...
Robert J Batt,Diwas S Kc,Bradley R Staats et al.
Robert J Batt et al.
Hospital emergency departments (EDs) provide around-the-clock medical care, and as such are generally modeled as nonterminating queues. However, from the care provider's point of view, ED care is not a never-ending process, but rather occur...
Integrated Scheduling and Capacity Planning with Considerations for Patients' Length-of-Stays [0.03%]
综合考虑住院时间的诊疗和资源配置一体化模型研究
Van-Anh Truong,Xinshang Wang,Nan Liu
Van-Anh Truong
Motivated by the shortcoming of current hospital scheduling and capacity planning methods which often model different units in isolation, we introduce the first dynamic multi-day scheduling model that integrates information about capacity u...
Lotty E Duijzer,Willem L van Jaarsveld,Jacco Wallinga et al.
Lotty E Duijzer et al.
Vaccination is an effective way to prevent an epidemic. It results in immunity for the vaccinated individuals, but it also reduces the infection pressure for unvaccinated people. Thus people may actually escape infection without being vacci...
The Boarding Patient: Effects of ICU and Hospital Occupancy Surges on Patient Flow [0.03%]
ICU和医院床位使用率激增对患者治疗的影响
Elisa F Long,Kusum S Mathews
Elisa F Long
Patients admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) often endure prolonged boarding within the ICU following receipt of care, unnecessarily occupying a critical care bed, and thereby delaying admission for other incoming patients du...
Dynamic Monitoring and Control of Irreversible Chronic Diseases with Application to Glaucoma [0.03%]
不可逆慢性病的动态监测与控制以及在青光眼中的应用研究
Pooyan Kazemian,Jonathan E Helm,Mariel S Lavieri et al.
Pooyan Kazemian et al.
To manage chronic disease patients effectively, clinicians must know (1) how to monitor each patient (i.e., when to schedule the next visit and which tests to take), and (2) how to control the disease (i.e., what levels of controllable risk...
Preference-Sensitive Management of Post-Mammography Decisions in Breast Cancer Diagnosis [0.03%]
基于偏好的乳腺癌诊断钼靶摄影后决策的管理方法
Mehmet Ulvi Saygi Ayvaci,Oguzhan Alagoz,Mehmet Eren Ahsen et al.
Mehmet Ulvi Saygi Ayvaci et al.
Decision models representing the clinical situations where treatment options entail a significant risk of morbidity or mortality should consider the variations in risk preferences of individuals. In this study, we develop a stochastic model...
A Capacity Allocation Planning Model for Integrated Care and Access Management [0.03%]
综合护理与接入管理的容量分配规划模型
Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson,Jonathan E Helm,Todd Huschka et al.
Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson et al.
The prevailing first-come-first-served approach to outpatient appointment scheduling ignores differing urgency levels, leading to unnecessarily long waits for urgent patients. In data from a partner healthcare organization, we found in some...
LOUIS-A. LEFEBVRE; ANN LANGLEY; JEAN HARVEY; ÉLISABETH LEFEBVRE
LOUIS-A. LEFEBVRE; ANN LANGLEY; JEAN HARVEY; ÉLISABETH LEFEBVRE