Operations Research and Simulation in Healthcare

by Malek Masmoudi, Bassem Jarboui, Patrick Siarry

Overview

This book presents work on healthcare management and engineering using optimization and simulation methods and techniques. Specific topics covered in the contributed chapters include discrete-event simulation, patient admission scheduling, simulation-based emergency department control systems, patient transportation, cost function networks, hospital bed management, and operating theater scheduling.

The content will be valuable for researchers and postgraduate students in computer science, information technology, industrial engineering, and applied mathematics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030452223
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/14/2021
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

A Two-Dimensional Categorization Scheme for Simulation-/Optimization-Based Decision Support in Hospitals Applied to Overall Bed Management in Interdependent Wards Under Flexibility.- Heuristics Based on the Hungarian Method for the Patient Admission Scheduling Problem.- A Bi-objective Algorithm for Robust Operating Theatre Scheduling.- Cost Function Networks to Solve Large Computational Protein Design Problems.- Modeling and Simulation in a Dialysis Center of the Hedi Chaker Hospital- Toward a Proactive and Reactive Simulation-Based Emergency Department Control System to Cope with Strain Situations.- A Decentralized Approach to the Home Healthcare Problem.- Wounded Transportation and Assignment to Hospital During Crises.- Carbon Footprints in Emergency Departments: A Simulation-Optimization Analysis.- The Effect of Risks on Discrete Event Simulation in Healthcare Systems.