Operations Research and Health Care

• Health Care Delivery: Current Problems and Future Challenges.- Health Care Operations Management.- Capacity Planning and Management in Hospitals.- Location of Health Care Facilities.- Ambulance Service Planning: Simulation and Data Visualisation.- Supply Chain Management of Blood Banks.- Evaluating the Efficiency of Hospitals’ Perioperative Services Using Dea.- Benchmarking Using DEA: The Case of Mental Health Organizations.- Using Simulation in an Acute-care Hospital: Easier Said Than Done.- Public Policy and Economic Analysis.- Estimating Risks to the Public Health.- Modeling Health Outcomes for Economic Analysis.- Duct Tape for Decision Makers: The Use of or Models in Pharmacoeconomics.- Drug Policy: Insights from Mathematical Analysis.- Modeling The Costs and Effects of Maintenance Treatment for Opiate Addiction.- Harm Reduction in The Control of Infectious Diseases Among Injection Drug Users.- The Cost Effectiveness of Partially Effective HIV Vaccines.- Designing Pediatric Formularies for Childhood Immunization Using Integer Programming Models.- Allocating Resources to Control Infectious Diseases.- Microbial Risk Assessment for Drinking Water.- Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy.- Decision Making for Bioterror Preparedness: Examples from Smallpox Vaccination Policy.- Models for Kidney Allocation.- Planning in the Face of Politics: Reshaping Children’s Health Services in Inner London.- Clinical Applications.- Modeling Medical Treatment Using Markov Decision Processes.- Dynamic Influence Diagrams: Applications to Medical Decision Modeling.- Assessment of the Benefits of Anesthesia Patient Risk Reduction Measures.- An Asthma Policy Model.- A Bayesian Network to Assist Mammography Interpretation.- Optimization and Decision Support in Brachytherapy TreatmentPlanning.- Radiotherapy Treatment Design and Linear Programming.- Optimization Tools for Radiation Treatment Planning in Matlab.- Transmission Model Analysis of Nontypeable Haemophilus Influenzae.- The Impact of Novel Treatments on A? Burden in Alzheimer’s Disease: Insights from A Mathematical Model.

From the reviews: "The three editors ... aim this book at a broad audience that includes OR practitioners and researchers with interests in healthcare, as well as healthcare practitioners. The editors set out in this book to provide a comprehensive reference on the applicability of operations research techniques, tools and theories to a wide range of issues and problems in healthcare. ... it is worthwhile to have a copy in the library as a useful reference to the many ways that OR could be applied in healthcare." (T Burgess, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 57, 2006)