"This book examines applied and theoretical aspects of industrial engineering and related areas. It also explores empirical and theoretical research on the development, improvement, implementation, and evaluation of integrated systems in engineering"--Provided by publisher

Background: Spoon dosing has been identified as 1 of the 3 major causes of dosing errors and pediatric poisonings (1). Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends against using kitchen silverware to dose liquid medicine (accessed June 28, 2009) most persons still use spoons when...

We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the general equilibrium of the economy and study the impact...

We study the impact a redistribution of income has on the decisions of a health care innovator and the utility of consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its price and increases the utility of some of the consumers...

Background: Concerns about rising health care costs require rigorous economic study to inform clinical and policy decision-making. Micro-costing is a cost estimation methodology employing detailed resource utilization and unit cost data to generate precise estimates of economic costs....