Works (28)
Updated: July 10th, 2023 21:13
2019 journal article
Probabilistic sensitivity analysis on Markov models with uncertain transition probabilities: an application in evaluating treatment decisions for type 2 diabetes
Health Care Management Science, 22(1), 34–52.
author keywords: Robustness and sensitivity analysis; Markov model; Transition probability matrices; Medical decision-making; Monte Carlo simulation
MeSH headings : Decision Making; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / therapy; Humans; Markov Chains; Models, Statistical; Monte Carlo Method; Probability; Uncertainty
TL;DR:
This article describes two simulation-based approaches for conducting probabilistic sensitivity analysis on a given discrete-time, finite-horizon, infinite-state Markov model using TPMs that are sampled over a specified uncertainty set according to a relevant probability distribution.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, Crossref
Added: February 25, 2019
2014 journal article
Optimizing the simultaneous management of blood pressure and cholesterol for type 2 diabetes patients
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, 233(3), 727–738.
author keywords: OR in medicine; Markov decision process; Type 2 diabetes; Blood pressure treatment; Cholesterol treatment
TL;DR:
A Markov decision process (MDP) model is presented to determine the optimal timing of blood pressure and cholesterol medications for patients with type 2 diabetes and the trade off between quality-adjusted life years and costs of treatment.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2013 journal article
Dynamic Appointment Scheduling of a Stochastic Server with Uncertain Demand
INFORMS JOURNAL ON COMPUTING, 25(1), 116–132.
author keywords: appointment scheduling; stochastic programming; health care
TL;DR:
Two new stochastic linear programming formulations of appointment scheduling problems that are motivated by the management of health services, where customers are scheduled dynamically, one at a time, as they request appointments, are formulated.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
A comparison of decision-maker perspectives for optimal cholesterol treatment
IBM JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 56(5).
TL;DR:
A Markov decision process (MDP) is used to show how decision-maker perspectives can influence medical treatment decisions related to cardiovascular risk management in patients with type 2 diabetes, and an inverse MDP model is formulated to estimate the implied monetary value of a year of life, from the societal perspective, according to current U.S. treatment guidelines.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
An examination of the dynamic changes in prostate-specific antigen occurring in a population-based cohort of men over time
BJU International, 110(3), 375–381.
MeSH headings : Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cohort Studies; Early Detection of Cancer; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Prostate-Specific Antigen / metabolism; Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis; ROC Curve; Sensitivity and Specificity
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
Optimization of PSA Screening Policies: A Comparison of the Patient and Societal Perspectives
MEDICAL DECISION MAKING, 32(2), 337–349.
author keywords: prostate cancer; PSA; partially observable Markov decision process; patient perspective; societal perspective
MeSH headings : Attitude to Health; Bayes Theorem; Biomarkers, Tumor / blood; Biopsy, Needle; Early Detection of Cancer; Early Diagnosis; Guideline Adherence; Humans; Individuality; Male; Markov Chains; Minnesota; Patient Acceptance of Health Care / statistics & numerical data; Probability; Prostate / pathology; Prostate-Specific Antigen / blood; Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis; Prostatic Neoplasms / psychology; Quality of Life; Quality-Adjusted Life Years
TL;DR:
PSA testing done with traditional guidelines underperforms and therefore underestimates the potential benefit of screening, and PSA screening based on traditional guidelines is found to be worse than no screening at all.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
Optimization of Prostate Biopsy Referral Decisions
M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, 14(4), 529–547.
author keywords: partially observable Markov decision process; PSA screening; biopsy; control-limit policy; stopping time problem
TL;DR:
A nonstationary partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) for prostate biopsy referral decisions that demonstrates a nondecreasing belief threshold in age, and provides sufficient conditions under which PSA screening should be discontinued for older patients.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
Optimizing Statin Treatment Decisions for Diabetes Patients in the Presence of Uncertain Future Adherence
MEDICAL DECISION MAKING, 32(1), 154–166.
author keywords: adherence; diabetes; statins; Markov decision process
MeSH headings : Adult; Decision Making; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / drug therapy; Female; Humans; Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / therapeutic use; Male; Markov Chains; Middle Aged; Patient Compliance; Quality-Adjusted Life Years
TL;DR:
A Markov decision process (MDP) model is used to optimize the treatment decision for patients with type 2 diabetes and determines the optimal time of statin initiation that minimizes expected costs and maximizes expected quality-adjusted life years (QALYs).
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2012 journal article
Simulation optimization of PSA-threshold based prostate cancer screening policies
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 15(4), 293–309.
author keywords: Prostate cancer screening; Simulation optimization; Genetic algorithm; Ranking and selection
MeSH headings : Age Factors; Algorithms; Computer Simulation; Early Detection of Cancer / methods; Early Detection of Cancer / statistics & numerical data; False Positive Reactions; Health Policy; Humans; Male; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Prostate-Specific Antigen / blood; Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis; Quality-Adjusted Life Years
TL;DR:
A simulation optimization method is described that integrates a simulation model in a genetic algorithm which uses a probabilistic method for selection of the best policy to design PSA screening policies based on expected quality adjusted life years.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
Bi-Criteria Scheduling of Surgical Services for an Outpatient Procedure Center
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, 20(3), 406–417.
author keywords: operating room; outpatient procedure; scheduling; simulation; genetic algorithm
TL;DR:
This analysis provides insight into the best scheduling heuristics, and the trade‐off between patient and health care provider‐based criteria, and the trade‐off between patient and health care provider‐based criteria.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
1. No Poverty
(OpenAlex)
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2011 journal article
Operating room pooling and parallel surgery processing under uncertainty
INFORMS Journal on Computing, 23(2), 220–237.
TL;DR:
A novel two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming model is presented to minimize total expected operating cost given that scheduling decisions are made before the resolution of uncertainty in surgery durations.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2010 journal article
A Discrete Event Simulation Model to Evaluate Operational Performance of a Colonoscopy Suite
MEDICAL DECISION MAKING, 30(3), 380–387.
author keywords: colorectal cancer; colonoscopy; discrete event; simulation
MeSH headings : Appointments and Schedules; Colonoscopy / economics; Colonoscopy / statistics & numerical data; Colorectal Neoplasms / diagnosis; Computer Simulation; Efficiency, Organizational; Health Care Rationing; Humans; Models, Organizational; Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; Task Performance and Analysis; Workflow
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2010 journal article
Improving Clinical Access and Continuity through Physician Panel Redesign
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE, 25(10), 1109–1115.
author keywords: primary care access; continuity of care; systems engineering
MeSH headings : Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Appointments and Schedules; Continuity of Patient Care / standards; Continuity of Patient Care / trends; Female; Health Services Accessibility / standards; Health Services Accessibility / trends; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Physicians, Primary Care / standards; Physicians, Primary Care / trends; Primary Health Care / standards; Primary Health Care / trends; Young Adult
TL;DR:
Redesigning primary care physician panels can improve access to and continuity of care for patients and provides shorter waiting time and higher continuity over a wide range of practice panel sizes.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2010 journal article
Optimal Allocation of Surgery Blocks to Operating Rooms Under Uncertainty
OPERATIONS RESEARCH, 58(4), 802–816.
TL;DR:
A fast and easy-to-implement heuristic works fairly well, on average, across many instances, and the robust method performs approximately as well as the heuristic, is much faster than solving the stochastic recourse model, and has the benefit of limiting the worst-case outcome of the recourse problem.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 journal article
Analysis of current approach and methodology for improvements
Interfaces, 39(3), 288–289.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 article
Case Study of a Batch-Production and Inventory System
INTERFACES, Vol. 39, pp. 552–554.
author keywords: production scheduling; inventory planning; sequencing
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 journal article
Comparison with historical data and impact
Interfaces, 39(3), 289–290.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 article
Implementing a Master Surgical Scheduling Approach in a Regional Hospital
INTERFACES, Vol. 39, pp. 549–551.
author keywords: health care; planning; economics; hospitals; efficiency; simulation
TL;DR:
"Practice Abstracts" are intended to provide Interfaces readers with short descriptions of the most relevant aspects of operations research-based projects, in a form that is accessible to academics and practitioners in other organizations.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 journal article
Improving the utilization of catheterization labs at Scottsdale Healthcare
Interfaces, 39(3), 288–288.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 article
Introduction: 2008 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences
INTERFACES, Vol. 39, pp. 2–5.
author keywords: professional: comments on
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 article
Optimizing the Start Time of Statin Therapy for Patients with Diabetes
Denton, B. T., Kurt, M., Shah, N. D., Bryant, S. C., & Smith, S. A. (2009, May). MEDICAL DECISION MAKING, Vol. 29, pp. 351–367.
author keywords: diabetes; statins; Markov decision process
MeSH headings : Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / complications; Drug Administration Schedule; Humans; Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / administration & dosage; Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / therapeutic use; Hypercholesterolemia / complications; Hypercholesterolemia / drug therapy; Markov Chains; Models, Theoretical
TL;DR:
A model to optimize the selection of patients for statin therapy of hypercholesterolemia, for patients with type 2 diabetes, using each of the risk models, finds that treatment decisions depend on the cardiovascular risk model used and the age, gender, and metabolic state of the patient.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 journal article
Performance evaluation and parametric analysis of our recommendations
Interfaces, 39(3), 289–289.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 article
Practice Abstracts
INTERFACES, Vol. 39, pp. 373–374.
author keywords: industries: lumber and wood; Excel spreadsheet; mixed-integer programming (MIP) model
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2008 journal article
Appointment scheduling in health care: Challenges and opportunities
IIE TRANSACTIONS, 40(9), 800–819.
author keywords: appointment scheduling; health care operations management; access rules
TL;DR:
A road map of the state of the art in the design of appointment management systems is provided and future opportunities for novel applications of IE/OR models are identified.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2008 article
HEURISTICS FOR BALANCING OPERATING ROOM AND POST-ANESTHESIA RESOURCES UNDER UNCERTAINTY
2008 WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-5, pp. 1601–1608.
TL;DR:
This work analyzes the structure of the problem, evaluates several heuristics based on competing performance measures for surgical suite efficiency, and presents results of numerical experiments and insights that can be derived from them.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2008 article
Introduction: 2007 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences
INTERFACES, Vol. 38, pp. 2–4.
author keywords: professional : comments on
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2008 article
Simulation of a virtual campus at the Open University of Catalonia
INTERFACES, Vol. 38, pp. 147–149.
author keywords: simulation : applications; computers : computer science; system design : operation
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2007 article
Practice Abstracts
INTERFACES, Vol. 37, pp. 582–583.
author keywords: concept design; multidisciplinary design optimization; combat systems
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
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