.Operations research for patient - centered health care delivery. Proceedings of the XXXVI International ORAHS Conference

Indice Preface Epidemiology and disease modelling (Optimal control applied to a discrete influenza model; Self-adaptive case based reasoning for dose planning in radiotherapy; A deterministic model to assess the impact of circumcision and other interventions against HIV/AIDS in Botswana) Health policy issues (Where is the profit in rare diseases research?; Funding long term care; Health care in Italy: expenditure determinants and regional differentials) Planning health services (Development of a personalized health decision support system; Models as artefacts: observations of sd model-building in parallel national and local projects; A metamodeling approach to healthcare system management; Identification and analysis of patient discharge process in a regional hospital; Predicting future capacity needs for health and social care service at strategic and tactical levels; Simulation project for an ear-nose-throat clinic) Emergency medical services (Single and multi-group evacuation in medium and maxi health-care emergencies; A new maximum reliability model for locating and dispatching ambulances; Modelling activity and costs of health emergency department; Relocating ambulance at the end of rescue missions; Forecasting Welsh ambulance demand using singular spectrum analysis) Home care and nursing homes (A literature review on operations management based models developed for ome health care services; Patient-centered care and efficiency in nursing homes; Application of semi-Markov processes in modelling patient duration of stay in a home care service; Assessing nursing home costs: a patient-centered perspective) Logistics for health care (Integrated vehicle routing and rostering for the home health care services; Optimal design of hospital drug distribution networks; Simulation of multiple views of medicine distribution in a navy hospital pharmacy) Scheduling health care operations (A tabu search approach for joint operating room assignment and scheduling; A rollout algorithmic approach for complex parallel machine scheduling in healthcare operations; Week hospital inpatient flow management; Towards an optimal mix in planning and scheduling of operating theatres; Application of generic algorithms on optimizing appointment scheduling in specialist outpatient clinics) Quality and appropriateness (SurgiQ, waiting list management made easy; The assessment of hospital staff satisfaction; Job satisfaction among social workers in the Marche region of Italy; The patient needs and the answer of general practitioner: the Italian citizens experience).