Health-care leaders place significant focus on reducing the average length of stay (ALOS). We examined the relationships among ALOS, cost and clinical outcomes using a neonatal intensive care unit ...

Reports Outline Parkinson's Disease Study Results from Imperial College (A discrete event simulation model to evaluate the use of community services in the treatment of patients with Parkinson's ...

This concentration is intended to prepare students for modeling and simulating various problems related to supply chain management, such as procurement, manufacturing, logistics and distribution, ...

Colorectal cancer includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix and affects around 30000 people in England each year. Maximizing health benefits for patients with colorectal cancer ...

Objectives: To examine whether, from a National Health Service (NHS) and local authority social services' viewpoint, a hospital-at-home service was cost saving compared with conventional inpatient ...

Development and Usage of eContour, a Novel, Three-Dimensional, Image-Based Web Site to Facilitate Access to Contouring Guidelines at the Point of Care The development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR ...

Based on presentation to IEEE's 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, Baltimore, Dec. 5-8, 2010. A discrete-event simulation technique, combined with optimization tools, permits easy management of ...

At the global level, the study reveals that the United States and the United Kingdom remain the dominant producers of ...