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Operations Research in Healthcare: a survey

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This paper surveys several applications of Operations Research in the domain of Healthcare and highlights current research activities, focusing on a variety of optimisation problems as well as solution techniques used for solving the Optimisation problems.
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This article is published in International Transactions in Operational Research.The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 339 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Strategic planning & Resource allocation.

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Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from the field of Operations Research and Management Sciences (OR/MS) for each planning decision.
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A survey of healthcare facility location

TL;DR: A framework to classify different types of non-emergency and emergency HCFs in terms of location management is presented, and the literature based on the framework is reviewed and future research possibilities are analyzed.
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Home health care routing and scheduling

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of current work in the field of HHC routing and scheduling with a focus on considered problem settings is given and single-period and multi-period problems are differentiated.
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Outpatient appointment systems in healthcare: A review of optimization studies

TL;DR: This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent analytical and numerical optimization studies that present decision-support tools for designing and planning outpatient appointment systems (OAS) and provides a structure for organizing the recent literature according to various criteria.
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