Operations Research and Health Care

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Edition: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1402076290

Operations Research and Health Care: A Handbook of Methods and Applications (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

The decision technologies, tools and theories of Operations Research and Management Sciences have long been applied to a wide range of issues and problems within health care.
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. | 2004 | 880 pages | ISBN-13: 9781402076299 | ISBN-10: 1402076290 | You save 25%
To date, however, there has been no single handbook that synthesizes the wide applicability of such techniques. The Handbook of Operations Research and Health Care now makes available to practitioners, students, and researchers a comprehensive handbook volume that will help them improve their ability to apply these decision technologies. In addition, the handbook will present new state-of-the-art techniques, explore new issues and challenges, and examine new avenues for research. This handbook will fill these needs in a three-fold approach: It reviews health

Operations Research and Health Care: A Handbook of Methods and Applications

Operations Research and Health Care: A Handbook of Methods and Applications: Francois Sainfort, Margaret L. Brandeau, William P. Pierskalla

Operations research tools are ideally suited to providing solutions and insights for the many problems health policy-maker's face. Indeed, a growing body of literature on health policy analysis, based on operations research methods, has emerged to address the problems mentioned above and several others. The research in this field is often multi-disciplinary, being conducted by teams that include not only operations researchers but also clinicians, economists and policy analysts. The research is also often very applied, focusing on a specific question driven by a decision-maker and many times y