16 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Operations Research in the Red Zone
The EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS) provides a network for researchers involved in the application of systematic and quantitative analysis in the planning and mana...
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A Comparison of Fairness Metrics for Health Care Problems
Fairness and balancing-related metrics can be modelled in several ways, and no single definition of fairness is universally accepted. From the application point of view, fairness is a rather common objective i...
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Uncertainty in the Blood Donation Appointment Scheduling: Key Factors and Research Perspectives
We consider the management of a blood collection center, which includes the features of both a production system and a service provider. In particular, we analyze the scheduling of donors and the related appoi...
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A Conditional Autoregressive Model for Estimating Slow and Fast Diffusion from Magnetic Resonance Images
The Intra-Voxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) model is adopted to estimate slow fast diffusion parameters of molecules in biological tissues, which are used biomarkers for different diseases. However, sta...
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Identification of Patient-Specific Parameters in a Kinetic Model of Fluid and Mass Transfer During Dialysis
Hemodialysis (HD) is nowadays the most common therapy to treat renal insufficiency. However, despite the improvements made in the last years, HD is still associated with a non-negligible rate of co-morbidities...
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Handling Time-Related Demands in the Home Care Nurse-to-Patient Assignment Problem with the Implementor-Adversarial Approach
The nurse-to-patient assignment is one of the main decisions in planning Home Care (HC) services under continuity of care. In the literature, this problem has been tackled with several approaches to take deman...
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A Bayesian Model for Describing and Predicting the Stochastic Demand of Emergency Calls
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems aim at providing immediate medical care in case of emergency. A careful planning is a major prerequisite for the success of an EMS system, in particular to reduce the re...
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A New Decomposition Approach for the Home Health Care Problem
Home Health Care (HHC) is a relatively new service that plays an important role to reduce hospitalization costs and improve the life quality for patients. Human resource planning is one of the most important p...
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A Cardinality-Constrained Robust Approach for the Ambulance Location and Dispatching Problem
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems aim to provide immediate care in case of emergency. A careful planning is a major prerequisite for the success of an EMS system, in particular to reduce the response ti...
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A Discrete Event Simulation Model for the Admission of Patients to a Home Care Rehabilitation Service
The admission of new patients to Home Care (HC) services is a relevant problem, which requires managing waiting lists while respecting a maximum admissible period between patient’s request and service beginnin...
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Management of Blood Donation System: Literature Review and Research Perspectives
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bayesian Estimation of the Aortic Stiffness based on Non-invasive Computed Tomography Images
Aortic diseases are one relevant cause of death in Western countries. They involve significant alterations of the aortic wall tissue, with consequent changes in the stiffness, i.e., the capability of the vessel t...
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Bayesian Filtering for Thermal Conductivity Estimation Given Temperature Observations
International standards often require complex experimental layouts to estimate the thermal conductivity of materials, and they marginally take into account the uncertainty in the estimation procedure. In this ...
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Joint Parameter Estimation and Biomass Tracking in a Stochastic Predator–Prey System
A Rao–Blackwellized particle filter for estimating the behavioral parameter of the functional response and tracking the biomass of each population in a stochastic predator–prey system is presented in this pape...
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Applying the Cardinality–Constrained Approach in Health Care Systems: The Home Care Example
Many approaches are applied to deal with uncertainty in health care optimization problems. However, a recently proposed technique, namely, the cardinality–constrained approach, is only marginally applied in he...
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Bayesian Analysis and Prediction of Patients’ Demands for Visits in Home Care
Home care (HC) providers are complex structures which include medical, paramedical, and social services delivered to patients at their domicile. High randomness affects the service delivery, mainly in terms of...
