Retinopathy is a common complication of insulin‐dependent (IDDM) and non‐insulin‐dependent (NIDDM) diabetes, but serious visual loss may be prevented or delayed with sufficiently early diagnosis and treatment. Screening for early signs of retinopathy is clearly beneficial for some people,...

This paper develops a two-stage planning procedure for master planning of elective and emergency patients while allocating at best the available hospital resources. Four types of resources are considered: operating theatre, beds in the medium and in the intensive care units, and nursing hours in...

The area of Health Services Operations Management has received considerable attention in scientific literature over the past decades. Numerous articles have appeared in health services operations management literature in which models of health operations are used. In this paper we review this...

Modelling‐based health care management ought to become just as popular as evidence based medicine. Making managerial decisions based on evidence by modelling efforts is certainly a step forward. Examples can be given of many successful applications in different areas of decision making:...