Health Care Systems Engineering for Scientists and Practitioners

1. Systems Approach for Preventing Falls in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Using Sensing Devices Surrounding the Patient’s Bed
M. Takanokura, M. Miyake, M. Kawakami, T. Yamada, S. Taki, M. Kakehi

2. A Multi-objective Patient Admission Planning Improving Resources Utilisation Under Bed Capacity Constraints
Alain Guinet, Nadine Meskens, Tao Wang

3. Multi-criteria Decision Making Approaches to Prioritize Surgical Patients
Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Afshin Jamshidi, Angel Ruiz, Daoud Ait-Kadi

4. Bed Managers: The Patient’s Personal Assistant
Seren Schirra, Gaelle Olleon, Estelle Forestier, Sylvie Meyran, Emmanuel Beaudry, Marie Lassaigne

5. An Optimization Model for Sequence Dependent Parallel Operating Room Scheduling
Johan Holmgren, Marie Persson

6. A Mean-Field Analysis for the Two-Tiered Healthcare Network Through Nonlinear Markov Processes
Na Li, Quan-Lin Li, Rui-Na Fan

7. Scheduling Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examinations: An Empirical Analysis
Filippo Visintin, Paola Cappanera

8. A Managerial Use of the Volume-Outcome Association for Hospital Planning
Arianna Alfieri, Elisabetta Listorti, Andrea Matta

9. A Discrete Event Simulation Model for the Admission of Patients to a Home Care Rehabilitation Service
Azadeh Maroufkhani, Ettore Lanzarone, Cecily Castelnovo, Maria Mascolo

10. Ambulance Location Problem with Stochastic Call Arrivals Under Nearest Available Dispatching Policy
Inkyung Sung, Taesik Lee

11. Approach to Clustering Clinical Departments
Alexander Hübner, Manuel Walther, Heinrich Kuhn

12. Management of Blood Donation System: Literature Review and Research Perspectives
Seda Baş, Giuliana Carello, Ettore Lanzarone, Zeynep Ocak, Semih Yalçındağ

13. Staffing Ratio Analysis in Primary Care Redesign: A Simulation Approach
Xiang Zhong, Hyo Kyung Lee, Molly Williams, Sally Kraft, Jeffery Sleeth, Richard Welnick, Lori Hoschild, Jingshan Li

14. Disease Prevention and Control Plans: State of the Art and Future Research Guideline
Wanying Chen, Alain Guinet, Angel Ruiz

15. A Goal-Programming Approach to the Master Surgical Scheduling Problem
Paola Cappanera, Filippo Visintin, Carlo Banditori

16. How Do Missing Patients Aggravate Emergency Department Overcrowding? A Real Case and a Simulation Study
Yong-Hong Kuo, Janny M. Y. Leung, Colin A. Graham

17. System Dynamics Modelling of Emergent and Elective Patient Flows
Paolo Landa, Michele Sonnessa, Elena Tànfani, Angela Testi

18. Markov Decision Process Model for Patient Admission Decision at an Emergency Department in Disasters
Hyun-Rok Lee, Taesik Lee

19. Crisis Management Plan: Preventive Measures and Lessons Learned from a Major Computer System Failure
Hélène Grange, Jérémie Leynon

20. Erratum to: A Mean-Field Analysis for the Two-Tiered Healthcare Network Through Nonlinear Markov Processes
Na Li, Quan-Lin Li, Rui-Na Fan

Keywords: Statistics, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Health Care Management, Statistical Theory and Methods, Health Administration, Health Informatics