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Operational Research for Emergency Planning in Healthcare: Volume 1

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Navonil Mustafee

    1. University of Exeter Business School, UK

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Part of the book series: OR Essentials (ORESS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. A Synthesis of Operational Research for Emergency Planning in Healthcare through the Triple Lens of Technique-Domain-Context

    1. A Synthesis of Operational Research for Emergency Planning in Healthcare through the Triple Lens of Technique-Domain-Context

      • N. Mustafee
      Pages 1-11

  3. OR for Locating Emergency Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Locating Emergency Services with Different Priorities: The Priority Queuing Covering Location Problem

      • F. Silva, D. Serra
      Pages 15-35

    3. Decision Support Tools for Ambulance Dispatch and Relocation

      • T. Andersson, P. Värbrand
      Pages 36-51

    4. A Study of Situationally Aware Routing for Emergency Responders

      • M. J. Henchey, R. Batta, A. Blatt, M. Flanigan, K. Majka
      Pages 52-82

  4. OR for Operational Planning in Emergency Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Multi-Criteria Approach Using Simulation-Based Balanced Scorecard for Supporting Decisions in Health-care Facilities: An Emergency Department Case Study

      • W. Abo-Hamad, A. Arisha
      Pages 85-118

    3. Combining Data Mining and Discrete Event Simulation for a Value-Added View of a Hospital Emergency Department

      • R. Ceglowski, L. Churilov, J. Wasserthiel
      Pages 119-138

    4. Uncovering Effective Process Improvement Strategies in an Emergency Department Using Discrete Event Simulation

      • O. H. Choon, Z. Dali, P. T. Beng, C. P. Y. Magdalene
      Pages 139-163

    5. Improving the Design and Operation of an Integrated Emergency Post via Simulation

      • N. J. Borgman, M. R. K. Mes, I. M. H. Vliegen, E. W. Hans
      Pages 164-189

    6. A Simulation Case Study to Improve Staffing Decisions at Mass Immunization Clinics for Pandemic Influenza

      • M. F. Beeler, D. M. Aleman, M. W. Carter
      Pages 190-223

    7. Modelling Treatment Effects in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

      • J. D. Griffiths, Z. F. Lawson, J. E. Williams
      Pages 224-246

  5. OR for Inventory Management in Emergency Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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    2. Impact of the Influenza Season on a Hospital from a Pharmaceutical Inventory Management Perspective

      • A. R. Vila-Parrish, J. S. Ivy, B. He
      Pages 249-287

    3. Perishable Inventory Management System with a Minimum Volume Constraint

      • Z. Shen, M. Dessouky, F. Ordonez
      Pages 288-329

    4. A Bayesian Decision Model with Hurricane Forecast Updates for Emergency Supplies Inventory Management

      • S. Taskin, E. J. Lodree Jr
      Pages 330-352

    5. Using Simulation to Improve the Blood Supply Chain

      • K. Katsaliaki, S. C. Brailsford
      Pages 353-372

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 373-378
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About this book

This book presents a collection of studies that have applied analytical methods to improve preparedness, planning, and a faster response to A&E and public health emergencies like epidemic and disease outbreak. It explores the application of quantitative Operational Research techniques such as Mathematical Modelling and Optimization, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis, Discrete-event Simulation, Data Mining, and Bayesian Decision Models. These techniques have been used for better management of emergency care, including first responders, ambulance services, A&E departments, and mass immunisation centres. This volume focuses on planning at the operational level whereas volume 2 focuses mainly on planning at the strategic level. The OR Essentials series presents a unique cross-section of high quality research work fundamental to understanding contemporary issues and research across a range of Operational Research (OR) topics. It brings together some of the best research papers from the highly respected journals of the Operational Research Society, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Exeter Business School, UK

    Navonil Mustafee

About the editor

Navonil Mustafee is Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Exeter Business School. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on healthcare modelling and simulation and has worked with the NHS in Wales and England on a number of capacity management studies which have used Operations Research techniques. Currently, he is engaged in collaborative studies with the Horizon Institute at Torbay Hospital. More widely, his research interests include simulation methodology (e.g. hybrid simulation, mix of soft-hard OR), parallel and distributed simulation, and bibliometric analysis of research domains.

He has authored close to 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals, conferences and chapters in books, and has co-edited one conference proceedings (UKORS OR55 conference). He is Associate Editor for Simulation (the transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International) and the Journal of Simulation (a publication of the UK OR society), and serves on the editorial board of several other journals. He has served as the program co-chair for the UK OR Society's 2013 annual conference (OR55) and program chair for the Spring Simulation Multi-conference 2014 (SpringSim14). He is conference vice-general chair for SpringSim15 and co-program chair for the 2015 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS).

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