Bibliography of Operations Research in Health-Care Systems

This paper presents a bibliography of the articles that were published before March 1976 and that describe applications of operations research techniques to health-care delivery systems.

[1]  James R. Jackson,et al.  An Improved Stochastic Model for Occupancy-Related Random Variables in General-Acute Hospitals , 1973, Oper. Res..

[2]  G M Andrew,et al.  Use of decision theory in treatment selection. , 1971, Clinical orthopaedics and related research.

[3]  N. Bailey.  A Study of Queues and Appointment Systems in Hospital Out‐Patient Departments, with Special Reference to Waiting‐Times , 1952 .

[4]  J B Schneider,et al.  Measuring the locational efficiency of the urban hospital. , 1968, Health services research.

[5]  Frank H. Trinkl.  A Stochastic Analysis of Programs for the Mentally Retarded , 1974, Oper. Res..

[6]  Vicente Navarro,et al.  Systems analysis in the health field , 1969 .

[7]  N. K. Kwak,et al.  Monte Carlo Simulation of Operating-Room and Recovery-Room Usage , 1972, Oper. Res..

[8]  P J Davis,et al.  House staff scheduling: a computer-aided method. , 1974, Annals of internal medicine.

[9]  G W Torrance,et al.  A utility maximization model for evaluation of health care programs. , 1972, Health services research.

[10]  H. Wolfe,et al.  Scheduling a multiple operating room system: a simulation approach. , 1968, Health services research.

[11]  M. Pike,et al.  Appointment Systems in Out-patients?? Clinics and the Effect of Patients?? Unpunctuality , 1964 .

[12]  Irwin W. Kabak.  On Scheduling the Delivery of Babies , 1972, Oper. Res..

[13]  F. J. Gould,et al.  A mathematical programming model for planning contraceptive deliveries , 1971 .

[14]  Walter Merten.  PERT and planning for health programs. , 1966, Public health reports.

[15]  Elisabeth Schach,et al.  A continuous time stochastic model for the utilization of health services , 1972 .

[16]  R. B. Fetter,et al.  The Simulation of Hospital Systems , 1965 .

[17]  Arnold H. Packer,et al.  Measures of Health-System Effectiveness , 1970, Oper. Res..

[18]  B E Fries.  Determining the miniumum cost configuration for a two-level medical record storage system. , 1974, Computers and biomedical research, an international journal.

[19]  Rita Zemach,et al.  A Model of Health-Service Utilization and Resource Allocation , 1970, Oper. Res..

[20]  M. M. Chen,et al.  Analysis of a tuberculin testing program using a health status index , 1972 .

[21]  E P Kao,et al.  A semi-Markov model to predict recovery progress of coronary patients. , 1972, Health services research.

[22]  H A Knappenberger,et al.  Evaluating bed allocation policy with computer simulation. , 1968, Health services research.

[23]  Peter Kolesar,et al.  Letter to the Editor - Comments on a Blood-Bank Inventory Model of Pegels and Jelmert , 1973, Oper. Res..

[24]  G Revesz,et al.  Patient flow and utilization of resources in a diagnostic radiology department. , 1972, Radiology.

[25]  C. Carl Pegels,et al.  An Evaluation of Blood-Inventory Policies: A Markov Chain Application , 1970, Oper. Res..

[26]  Jack R. Meredith,et al.  A Markovian Analysis of a Geriatric Ward , 1973 .

[27]  Allen Lee,et al.  Financing Mental-Health Services in the State of New York , 1972, Oper. Res..

[28]  C. Flagle,et al.  The role of simulation in the health services. , 1970, American journal of public health and the nation's health.

[29]  J R FREEMAN,et al.  HOSPITAL SUPPLY DECISIONS: COST PREDICTIONS. , 1964, Hospital management.

[30]  Christoph Maier-Rothe,et al.  Cyclical scheduling and allocation of nursing staff , 1973 .

[31]  John B. Jennings,et al.  Blood Bank Inventory Control , 1973 .

[32]  Shuman Lj,et al.  Location of ambulatory care centers in a metropolitan area. , 1973 .

[33]  Anthony Hindle,et al.  A Model for Community Nursing in a Rural County , 1974 .

[34]  Robert B. Fetter,et al.  A Decision Model for the Design and Operation of a Progressive Patient Care Hospital , 1969 .

[35]  Sang M. Lee.  An aggregative resource allocation model for hospital administration , 1973 .

[36]  Richard L. Morrill,et al.  Optimum allocation of services: An hospital example , 1969 .

[37]  Ilan Vertinsky,et al.  Health care delivery: a policy simulator , 1972 .

[38]  J L Sanders,et al.  Planning models for tuberculosis control programs. , 1971, Health services research.

[39]  William Shonick,et al.  A Stochastic Model for Occupancy-Related Random Variables in General-Acute Hospitals , 1970 .

[40]  John J. Wiorkowski,et al.  Prediction and Control of the Size of an Input-Output System , 1971 .

[41]  J. A. Dei Rossi,et al.  A Telephone-Access Biomedical Information Center , 1972, Oper. Res..

[42]  William K. Hall.  Management science approaches to the determination of urban ambulance requirements , 1971 .

[43]  R. Morrill,et al.  Locational efficiency of Chicago hospitals: an experimental model. , 1969, Health services research.

[44]  Richard M. Burton,et al.  Practice of Management Science---Patient States and the Technology Matrix , 1975 .

[45]  S. Schweitzer,et al.  Cost effectiveness of early detection of disease. , 1974, Health services research.

[46]  Fred L. Offensend.  A Hospital Admission System Based on Nursing Work Load , 1972 .

[47]  K L White,et al.  A stochastic and deterministic model of medical care utilization. , 1970, Health services research.

[48]  Young Jp.  A conceptual framework for hospital administrative decision systems. , 1968 .

[49]  Jay A. Vora,et al.  Heuristics and Optimizing Techniques Applied to Long Range Facility Planning for Hospital Ancillary Departments , 1974 .

[50]  T. Lincoln,et al.  A Statistical Evaluation of Recurrent Medical Examinations , 1964 .

[51]  J. M. Norman,et al.  Computer Simulation Models for a Multi-Specialty Ward , 1972 .

[52]  J G Anderson,et al.  An Adaptive Social Systems Model of a Prepaid Group Practice Plan , 1975, Medical care.

[53]  Lawrence Bodin,et al.  Letter to the Editor - Financing Mental-Health Services in the State of New York: An Update , 1974, Oper. Res..

[54]  J E Myers,et al.  A computer simulation of outpatient pharmacy operations. , 1972, Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing.

[55]  M A Baum,et al.  Planning health care delivery systems. , 1975, American journal of public health.

[56]  Norman T. J. Bailey,et al.  QUEUEING FOR MEDICAL CARE , 1954 .

[57]  R. G. Coyle.  Stochastic analysis of a hospital's X-ray filing system—A case study , 1969 .

[58]  J. W. Bush,et al.  A Health-Status Index and its Application to Health-Services Outcomes , 1970, Oper. Res..

[59]  William K. Hall.  The Application of Multifunction Stochastic Service Systems in Allocating Ambulances to an Urban Area , 1972, Oper. Res..

[60]  H. J. Butler,et al.  Operations research in health and hospital administration , 1966 .

[61]  Louis R. Pondy,et al.  Utilization and productivity of the Duke physician's associate , 1973 .

[62]  J. Bush,et al.  Estimating health program outcomes using a Markov equilibrium analysis of disease development. , 1971, American Journal of Public Health.

[63]  H A Knappenberger,et al.  How to determine the optimum number of operating rooms. , 1968, Modern hospital.

[64]  Giffin Wc.  How stimulation can help analyze blood bank system. , 1962 .

[65]  Modi Ja.  Linear programming in occupational medicine. , 1970 .

[66]  L J Shuman,et al.  Manpower mix for health services: a prescriptive regional planning model. , 1971, Health services research.

[67]  Larry J. Shuman,et al.  The Role of Operations Research in Regional Health Planning , 1974, Oper. Res..

[68]  E. S. Savas,et al.  Simulation and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of New York's Emergency Ambulance Service , 1969 .

[69]  J. F. Bithell,et al.  The Statistics of Hospital Admission Systems , 1969 .

[70]  D J NEWELL,et al.  Provision of Emergency Beds in Hospitals , 1954, British journal of preventive & social medicine.

[71]  R C Elston,et al.  Guides to Inventory Levels for a Hospital Blood Bank Determined by Electronic Computer Simulation , 1965, Transfusion.

[72]  R. Fetter,et al.  Patients' waiting time and doctors' idle time in the outpatient setting. , 1966, Health services research.

[73]  William J. Abernathy,et al.  COMPARISON OF NURSE ALLOCATION POLICIES‐A MONTE CARLO MODEL* , 1974 .

[74]  R. Elston,et al.  A Statistical Approach to Ordering and Usage Policies for a Hospital Blood Bank * , 1963 .

[75]  B J McNeil,et al.  Measures of clinical efficacy. The value of case finding in hypertensive renovascular disease. , 1975, The New England journal of medicine.

[76]  R. D. Smallwood,et al.  Correction to "A medical service requirements model for health system design" , 1970 .

[77]  J. F. Bithell,et al.  A Class of Discrete-Time Models for the Study of Hospital Admission Systems , 1969, Oper. Res..

[78]  Glen L. Urban,et al.  A Model for Managing a Family-Planning System , 1974, Oper. Res..

[79]  A T Sumner,et al.  Long-range prediction of examining room requirements. , 1972, Health services research.

[80]  Martin B. Solomon,et al.  A simulation of hospital admission policy , 1966, CACM.

[81]  M Rabinowitz.  Blood bank inventory policies: a computer simulation. , 1973, Health services research.

[82]  V Navarro,et al.  Planning Personal Health Services: A Markovian Model , 1969, Medical care.

[83]  Ilan Vertinsky,et al.  Ambulance Location: A Probabilistic Enumeration Approach , 1973 .

[84]  David E. Allen,et al.  Optimal planning of an emergency ambulance service , 1969 .

[85]  J Goldman,et al.  An evaluation of operating room scheduling policies. , 1969, The Hospital manager.

[86]  Jamshed A. Modi.  Test of a technique for planning medical procedures in preventive health examination programs , 1972 .

[87]  Hirsch Gb,et al.  A new framework for projecting dental manpower requirements. , 1975 .

[88]  N T J BAILEY.  On assessing the efficiency of single-room provision in hospital wards. , 1951, The Journal of hygiene.

[89]  D B Starkweather,et al.  Delphi forecasting of health care organization. , 1975, Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing.

[90]  Edward J. Sondik,et al.  Toward an Integrated Methodology for the Analysis of Health-Care Systems , 1971, Oper. Res..

[91]  Dan J. Laughhunn,et al.  AN APPLICATION OF QUEUING THEORY TO A CONGESTION PROBLEM IN AN OUTPATIENT CLINIC , 1973 .

[92]  Fetter Rb,et al.  RESEARCH HELPS CALCULATE OB BED NEEDS. , 1964 .

[93]  Peter Kolesar,et al.  A Markovian Model for Hospital Admission Scheduling , 1970 .

[94]  C. Carl Pegels.  A Blood Bank Collection Scheduling and Inventory Control System , 1969 .

[95]  R D Parker.  Variation of the occupancy of two medical units with the amount of sharing between the units. , 1968, Health services research.

[96]  H. Correa,et al.  Mathematical models for decision-making in population and family planning. , 1971, American journal of public health.

[97]  David Johnson,et al.  Planning Patient Care with a Markov Model , 1975 .

[98]  D. Warner,et al.  A Mathematical Programming Model for Scheduling Nursing Personnel in a Hospital , 1972 .

[99]  R M Grimes,et al.  Three case studies in planning: 3. Use of decision theory in regional planning. , 1974, Health services research.

[100]  James R. Newheiser,et al.  A stochastic model for health care resource planning , 1972 .

[101]  E L HURLBURT,et al.  Blood Bank Inventory Control , 1964, Transfusion.

[102]  J. Liebman,et al.  Allocation of nursing personnel in an extended care facility. , 1972, Health services research.

[103]  J. J. McDonald.  Vehicle Scheduling — A Case Study , 1972 .

[104]  Arnold H. Packer,et al.  Applying Cost-Effectiveness Concepts to the Community Health System , 1968, Oper. Res..

[105]  Thompson Jb,et al.  How queuing theory works for the hospital. , 1960 .

[106]  Dean Uyeno.  Health Manpower Systems: An Application of Simulation to the Design of Primary Health Care Teams , 1974 .

[107]  Iain B. Duncan,et al.  Opportunity Costs and Elementary Inventory Theory in the Hospital Service , 1973 .

[108]  Edward J. Rising,et al.  A Systems Analysis of a University-Health-Service Outpatient Clinic , 1973, Oper. Res..

[109]  Homer R. Warner,et al.  Simulation of a multiphasic screening procedure for hospital admissions , 1971 .

[110]  Whitston Cw.  AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEMS OF SCHEDULING SURGERY. II. , 1965 .

[111]  Thompson Jd,et al.  Use of computer simulation techniques in predicting requirements for maternity facilities. , 1963 .

[112]  R F Rikkers.  Effect of spoke design on occupancy: a simulation model. , 1970, Health services research.

[113]  Robert B. Fetter,et al.  The Economics of the Maternity Service † , 1963, The Yale journal of biology and medicine.

[114]  M M Connors.  A stochastic elective admissions scheduling algorithm. , 1970, Health services research.

[115]  Birger Jansson,et al.  Choosing a Good Appointment System - A Study of Queues of the Type (D, M, 1) , 1966, Oper. Res..

[116]  Haussmann Rk.  Waiting time as an index of quality of nursing care. , 1970 .

[117]  M. Rothstein.  Hospital manpower shift scheduling by mathematical programming. , 1973, Health services research.

[118]  G Hirsch,et al.  Narcotics and the community: a system stimulation. , 1972, American journal of public health.

[119]  R W O'Connor,et al.  Using a model as a practical management tool for family planning programs. , 2015, American journal of public health.

[120]  A. G. Smith,et al.  Operational Research for the Hospital Supply Service , 1975 .

[121]  Brian E. Forst,et al.  Decision Analysis and Medical Malpractice , 1974, Oper. Res..

[122]  J. O. McClain,et al.  Trade-offs and conflicts in evaluation of health system alternatives: methodology for analysis. , 1974, Health services research.

[123]  J Lipscomb,et al.  Impact of expanded-duty assistants on cost and productivity in dental care delivery. , 1975, Health services research.

[124]  W. R. Lynn,et al.  Mathematical models for the economic allocation of tuberculosis control activities in developing nations. , 1967, The American review of respiratory disease.

[125]  A. Geser,et al.  The use of mathematical models in the study of the epidemiology of tuberculosis. , 1962, American journal of public health and the nation's health.

[126]  Efraim Turban,et al.  Hospital Admission Systems: Their Evaluation and Management , 1973 .

[127]  T R Willemain,et al.  Planning a medical practice using paramedical personnel. , 1974, Health services research.

[128]  V E Weckwerth,et al.  Determining bed needs from occupancy and census figures. , 1966, Hospitals.

[129]  Young Jp,et al.  Stabilization of inpatient bed occupancy through control of admissions. , 1965 .

[130]  Juan Prawda,et al.  A Computer Simulation Model for the Control of Rabies in an Urban Area of Colombia , 1975 .

[131]  F. Paul Wyman,et al.  Experimental analysis of a GPSS simulation of a student health center , 1972 .

[132]  V Navarro,et al.  A systems approach to health planning. , 1969, Health services research.

[133]  R S Mackenzie,et al.  Expanded-function auxiliaries in general dentistry: a computer simulation. , 1972, Health services research.

[134]  A. Handyside,et al.  Simulation of emergency bed occupancy. , 1967, Health Services Research.

[135]  William A. Wallace,et al.  A computer simulation approach for planning in hospital ancillary services , 1971 .

[136]  W J Pelton,et al.  Comparison of computer-generated data with actual use of therapists. , 1973, Journal of dental education.

[137]  J. D. Welch,et al.  Appointment systems in hospital outpatient departments. , 1952, Lancet.

[138]  A. Soriano,et al.  Comparison of Two Scheduling Systems , 1966, Oper. Res..

[139]  Covert Rp,et al.  Simulation modeling of a teaching hospital outpatient clinic. , 1967 .

[140]  M G Yochmowitz,et al.  Regional planning of maternity services. , 1975, Health services research.

[141]  H. W. Jackman.  Financing Public Hospitals in Ontario: A Case Study in Rationing of Capital Budgets , 1973 .

[142]  D. J. Laughhunn,et al.  An economic and linear model of the hospital. , 1969, Health services research.

[143]  P COWAN,et al.  Determining Maternity Case Load by Means of a Poisson Process , 1964, British journal of preventive & social medicine.

[144]  Richard L. Morrill,et al.  The transportation problem and patient travel to physicians and hospitals , 1971 .

[145]  J. B. Jennings,et al.  An Analysis of Hospital Blood Bank Whole Blood Inventory Control Policies , 1968, Transfusion.

[146]  J K Cooper,et al.  Estimating bed needs by means of queuing theory. , 1974, The New England journal of medicine.

[147]  Richard A. Volz.  Optimum Ambulance Location in Semi-Rural Areas , 1971 .

[148]  Charles D. Flagle.  Operations research in the health services. , 1962 .

[149]  J. D. Welch.  Appointment Systems in Hospital Outpatient Departments , 1964 .

[150]  Morton Klein,et al.  Surveillance Schedules for Medical Examinations , 1974 .

[151]  Kilpatrick Ke,et al.  A simulation of tank oxygen inventory at a community general hospital. , 1967 .

[152]  R B Fetter,et al.  Economics of occupancy with varying mixes of private and other patient accommodations: a simulation. , 1969, Health services research.

[153]  Edward P. C. Kao,et al.  Modeling the Movement of Coronary Patients within a Hospital by Semi-Markov Processes , 1974, Oper. Res..

[154]  R Parker,et al.  A Bayesian Approach to Rating Health Status of Geriatric Patients , 1971, Medical care.

[155]  Charles Reveller,et al.  An Optimization Model of Tuberculosis Epidemiology , 1969 .

[156]  James A. Fitzsimmons,et al.  A Methodology for Emergency Ambulance Deployment , 1973 .

[157]  William J. Abernathy,et al.  A Three-Stage Manpower Planning and Scheduling Model - A Service-Sector Example , 1973, Oper. Res..

[158]  Jesse H. Katz.  Simulation of outpatient appointment systems , 1969, CACM.

[159]  David Whipple.  A voucher plan for financing health care delivery , 1973 .

[160]  G.F.A. Hoffmann de Visme,et al.  A program using random numbers of arbitrary probability distribution to simulate the flow of patients through a hospital casualty ward , 1973 .

[161]  Norman T. J. Bailey.  Operational Research in Medicine , 1952 .

[162]  Hans Jørgen Rasmusen.  Conflicting strategic objectives in hospital design , 1974 .

[163]  Kerry E. Kilpatrick,et al.  An Optimum Manpower Utilization Model for Health Maintenance Organizations , 1975, Oper. Res..

[164]  George P. Schultz,et al.  The logic of health care facility planning , 1970 .

[165]  G J Rath,et al.  Simulation of a hematology department. , 1970, Health services research.