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Program
Monday
Monday, 9:30-11:00
MA-01: Opening Session Morning
Stream: Monday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Inês Marques, Roberto Aringhieri, Marion Rauner, Patrick Hirsch, Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann
Monday, 11:00-12:00
MB-01: Keynote Peter Zweifel
Stream: Monday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann
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Preference Measurement in Health Using Experiments
Peter Zweifel
Monday, 13:00-13:30
MC-01: Opening Session Afternoon
Stream: Monday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Marion Rauner, Patrick Hirsch, Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann, Roberto Aringhieri, Inês Marques
Monday, 13:30-15:30
MD-01: Health Care Networks
Stream: Monday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Michael Carter
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Embedding OR/systems modelling as decision support in health planning: establishing a Community of Practice
Sally Brailsford, Steffen Bayer, Con Connell, Jonathan Klein -
Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of a Wales-wide public health initiative.
Mark Tuson, Paul Harper, Daniel Gartner -
Sim.Pro.Flow – Automating Simulation Build
Emma Aspland, Paul Harper, Daniel Gartner, Edilson Arruda, Geraint Palmer, Phil Webb, Peter Barrett-Lee -
Analyst-driven development of an open-source simulation tool to address poor uptake of O.R. in healthcare
Christos Vasilakis, Richard Wood
MD-02: Health Care Workforce Scheduling I
Stream: Monday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
Inês Marques
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The Value of Information in Multi-Skilled Nurse Scheduling
Jan Schoenfelder -
Need-based Workforce Planning for Healthcare Services Delivered by Teams
Majid Taghavi, Nader Azad -
Physician Staffing and Shift Scheduling at Emergency Departments with Time Varying Productivity
Negar Ganjouhaghighi, Marco Bijvank, Alireza Sabouri -
Nurse rescheduling with a fair distribution of shift changes
Lena Wolbeck, Natalia Kliewer, Inês Marques
MD-03: Infectious Disease Policy Modelling
Stream: Monday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Daniel Gartner
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A Rule-based Digital Vaccination Decision Support for Child Immigrants Immunization Coordination in Sweden – The VacSam Digital Service
Odd Steen, Nicklas Holmberg -
Childhood Vaccination in Vienna: A Cross-Sectional Survey Conducted in 4th Grades of Public Primary Schools
Marion Rauner, Simone Schnedlitz, Sabine Blaschke -
Modeling HIV incidence and prevalence in Turkey, 2018-2030
Emine Yaylali, Zikriye Melisa Erdoğan
Monday, 16:00-18:00
ME-01: Elderly and Mental Health Care Planning
Stream: Monday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Leslie Anne Campbell
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Informing the Transformation of Mental Health and Addictions Service: A Realist Evaluation
Leslie Anne Campbell, Jill Chorney, Sharon Clark, Debbie Emberly, Julie MacDonald -
Network-based operational modelling of healthcare systems to support service improvement
Sean Manzi -
Regionalization in perinatal mental health in Ile de France
Catherine Crenn-Hebert
ME-02: Emergency Care Planning I
Stream: Monday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
Mario Jorge Ferreira de Oliveira
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Characterization of Care Complexity in Emergency Departments
Marco Bijvank, Seung-Yup Lee -
Managing Emergency Department Patient Flow and Nurse Staffing using Fluid Approximations for Multi-Class Pooled Service Queues
Maria Mayorga, Siddhartha Nambiar -
A Simulation-Optimization approach for parameter calibration of Emergency Department discrete event simulation model
Massimo Roma, Alberto De Santis, Laura De Vito, Tommaso Giovannelli, Stefano Lucidi, Mauro Messedaglia, Federico Petitti, Ferdinando Romano -
Modelling the use of ICU beds in the State of Rio de Janeiro using big data, Simulation and Artificial Intelligence
Mario Jorge Ferreira de Oliveira
ME-03: Machine Learning Approaches in Health Care
Stream: Monday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Evrim Didem Gunes
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A personalized approach to the allocation of complex care delivery under parameter uncertainty
Onur Demiray, Evrim Didem Gunes, E. Lerzan Ormeci -
Improvement of patients outcome through the optimization of pre-surgical times and Length of Stay (LOS)
Santamaria-Acevedo Gustavo -
Predicting and Improving Patient-Level Antibiotic Adherence
Margaret L. Brandeau
Monday, 18:30-19:00
MF-01: e-Vienna City Tour
Stream: Monday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Marion Rauner, Nurcan Cakan
Tuesday
Tuesday, 9:30-11:30
TA-01: Emergency Services – Ambulance Location
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Maria Eugénia Captivo
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The challenge of dispatching the right ambulance: A simulation-optimization approach
David Olave-Rojas, Stefan Nickel -
Overcoming modeling flaws in ambulance location models
Pieter van den Berg -
An investigation into ‘optimal service hours’ for the operation of response vehicles for the North West Air Ambulance Charity (NWAA)
Dave Worthington, Roger Brooks, Lucy Morgan, David Briggs -
Integrating ambulance dispatching and relocation problems: the Portuguese case
Ana Sofia Carvalho, Maria Eugénia Captivo, Inês Marques
TA-02: Home Health Care Planning
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
Patrick Hirsch
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A study of integer programming formulations on traveling salesman problem with flexible coloring: models and application in home healthcare service
Haibo Wang, Bahram Alidaee -
Evaluation of an integrated mobility concept for home care staff and ambulant patients
Lorena Reyes-Rubiano, Jana Voegl, Patrick Hirsch -
The impact of synchronization in home health and social care services
Helena Ramalhinho Lourenco, Jesica de Armas, Marcelus Lima
TA-03: Chronic Care Policy Modelling
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Eric Silverman
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Simulating the interaction of social and child care demand with an agent-based model
Eric Silverman, Umberto Gostoli -
An Evaluation of Funding Reform for Cerebrovascular Stroke in Ontario, Canada
Felipe Rodrigues, Salar Ghamat, Norine Foley, David Barrett, Matthew Meyer -
Designing Cancer Care through Patients Experiences: A Perspective of Self-Determination Theory
Jiun-Yu Yu -
Evaluating service innovations to alleviate pressures in the management of patients with long term conditions through system dynamics modelling
Gozdem Dural, Christos Vasilakis
Tuesday, 12:00-14:00
TB-01: Emergency Care Planning II
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Melanie Reuter-Oppermann
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Designing an Emergency Navigator for Assigning Emergency Patients to Hospitals
Melanie Reuter-Oppermann, Clemens Wolff -
Triage algorithms for mass casualty incidents: Comparison, analysis and new systems.
Christina Bartenschlager -
When to Switch? Index Policies for Resource Scheduling in Emergency Response
Dong Li, Li Ding, Stephen Connor -
Fairness in ambulance routing for post disaster management
Sara Bigharaz, Roberto Aringhieri
TB-02: Health Care Appointment Planning I
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
Jens Brunner
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Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Operational Factors On Clinical Decision Making in a Chronic Care Clinic
Zehra Önen Dumlu, Evrim Didem Gunes, Raj Sengupta, Tolga Tezcan -
Chemotherapy planning and clinicians rostering in an outpatient cancer centre
Elena Tanfani, Giuliana Carello, Paolo Landa, Angela Testi -
Minimizing Tardy Appointments in Physiotherapy Under Consideration of Continuity of Care and Therapist Preferences
Jens Brunner, Sebastian Kling, Sebastian Kraul
TB-03: Operating Room Planning
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Erik Demeulemeester
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Designing master surgery schedules with downstream unit integration via stochastic optimization
Daniel Santos, Inês Marques -
Operating room planning and scheduling for outpatients and inpatients under uncertainty: A literature review and a simulation study
Lien Wang, Erik Demeulemeester, Vansteenkiste Nancy, Rademakers Frank -
Stochastic Scheduling of Operating Rooms And Reusable Medical Devices Under Dynamic Rescheduling
Enis Kayis, Elvin Coban, Seyyed Kian Farajkhah -
A mathematical programming framework to manage extended operating room hours
Mariana Oliveira, Valérie Bélanger, Angel Ruiz, Daniel Santos, Inês Marques
Tuesday, 15:00-16:00
TC-01: Keynote Greg Zaric
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Marion Rauner
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Incentives and Coordination in Healthcare
Greg Zaric
Tuesday, 16:30-18:00
TD-01: Round Table on Prevention
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Bernhard Schwarz
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Round Table on Challenges in Health Care Prevention
Sally Brailsford, Margaret L. Brandeau, Alexandra Schosser, Bernhard Schwarz
Tuesday, 18:30-19:00
TE-01: e-Tour Sky Lounge
Stream: Tuesday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Marion Rauner, Nurcan Cakan
Wednesday
Wednesday, 13:30-15:30
WA-01: Poster Session
Stream: Wednesday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Roberto Aringhieri, Inês Marques, Sally Brailsford, Michael Carter
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Application of forecasting techniques to predict the volume of EMS calls
Paulo Abreu, Ana Barbosa-Povoa, Inês Marques -
Variability in hospital treatment costs: A time-driven activity-based costing approach for early stage invasive breast cancer patients
Erin Roman -
Multi-site Pathology Service Optimisation
Daniel Gartner, Daniel Tolley, Trish Chalk -
Patient adherence in healthcare problems: A systematic literature review of OR/MS approach
Hakan Kılıç, Evrim Didem Gunes -
Multi-site and multi-service modelling for elderly and frail patients
Elizabeth Williams, Paul Harper, Daniel Gartner -
Reducing Waiting Time for MRI Services Using Discrete Event Simulation
Sara Ketabi, Michael Carter -
Developing and Benchmarking a Scatter Search for Markov Blanket Attribute Selection and Classification for Healthcare Data Sets
John Threlfall -
HYBRID MODELLING OF SPREAD OF ANXIETY DUE TO VIRUS INFECTION
Leonidas Sakalauskas
Wednesday, 16:00-18:00
WB-01: Covid-19 Policy Modelling
Stream: Wednesday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Alexander Rutherford
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Discrete Event Simulation Model to support decision-making concerning COVID-19 patients’ admissions in hospitals and Intensive Care Units
Daniel García-Vicuña, Laida Esparza Artanga, Fermin Mallor -
A Queue Network Model of Ventilator Access during the COVID-19 Epidemic
Alexander Rutherford, Samantha Zimmerman, Peter Dodek, Monica Norena, Alexa van der Waall -
Optimising the daily swab test collection to identify new cases of Covid-19
Davide Duma, Roberto Aringhieri, Sara Bigharaz, Alessandro Druetto, Andrea Grosso
Wednesday, 18:30-19:00
WC-01: e-Tour Schönbrunn
Stream: Wednesday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Marion Rauner, Nurcan Cakan
Thursday
Thursday, 9:30-11:30
HA-01: Behavioral OR & Policies in Health Care
Stream: Thursday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Sally Brailsford
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Designing Delphi knowledge construction processes to enable OR behavioural research and extend stakeholders’ analyses in health settings
Monica Oliveira, Liliana Freitas, Ana Vieira, Klára Dimitrovová, Carlos Bana e Costa -
Using a hybrid system dynamics and agent-based simulation to evaluate the External Reference Pricing regulation effect on access, affordability and availability
Rossen M. Kazakov, Susan Howick, Alec Morton -
Should I stay or should I go? Understanding no-show behaviour among low-income patients in Bogotá, Colombia
David Barrera Ferro, Sally Brailsford, Honora Smith, Steffen Bayer
HA-02: Emergency Care Planning III
Stream: Thursday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
Roberto Aringhieri
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Analysing the impact of workload-based patient to physician assignment on emergency department performance by use of discrete-event simulation
Lien Vanbrabant, Kris Braekers, Katrien Ramaekers -
Minimizing travel time in a neonatal care network by re-assigning general hospitals to Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Robin Buter, Gréanne Leeftink, Erwin W. Hans, Maarten Blanken, Willem de Vries -
A Review on Initiatives for Management of Daily Emergencies Prior to Arrival of Emergency Medical Services
Niki Matinrad, Melanie Reuter-Oppermann -
A SIMULATION-BASED DSS FOR ED PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Cristiano Fabbri, Vincenzo Bua, Enrico Malaguti, Michele Monaci, Paolo Tubertini
HA-03: Health Economics I
Stream: Thursday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Alec Morton
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Multi-objective optimization of a Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme
Lauri Neuvonen, Mary Dillon -
Investigating a Subscription Payment Model for Antibiotic Purchasing
Euan Barlow, Alec Morton, Itamar Megiddo, Abigail Colson -
Prepare or react? Integrating large health shocks into life-cycle models
Michael Freiberger, Michael Kuhn, Stefan Wrzaczek
Thursday, 12:00-14:00
HB-01: Strategic Health Care Modelling
Stream: Thursday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Anders N. Gullhav
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Forecasting the bed census for surgical and internal departments
Nicky Schuermans, Richard Boucherie, Aleida Braaksma, Paul Joustra, Elise Van Zandbrink -
Policy design for selection of alternatives and physicians'consideration choice sets
Christine C Huttin -
Emergency Department Layout Planning Using Simulation and Optimization
Anders N. Gullhav, Tore Bjørseth Berdal, Erlend Nydal, Henrik Andersson, Bjørn Nygreen
HB-02: Health Care Operations Management I
Stream: Thursday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
Christos Vasilakis
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Combined master surgery and outpatient clinic scheduling
Thomas Bovim, Anita Abdullahu, Lars Hellemo, Anders N. Gullhav -
The Prisoner’s Dilemma in healthcare scheduling
Marion Penn -
An optimal non-uniform piecewise constant approximation of the patient arrival rate for a more efficient representation of the Emergency Department arrival process
Tommaso Giovannelli, Alberto De Santis, Stefano Lucidi, Mauro Messedaglia, Massimo Roma
HB-03: Health Economics II
Stream: Thursday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann
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Changes in hospital efficiency and size in the age of city hospital investments: An integrated propensity score matching with data envelopment analysis
Songul Cinaroglu -
Frontier efficiency studies in healthcare and quality: A review
Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann -
Methodology for Estimating the Private and Societal Values of Antimicrobials
Itamar Megiddo, Abigail Colson, Euan Barlow, Alec Morton
Thursday, 15:00-17:00
HC-01: Health Care Operations Management II
Stream: Thursday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Stefan Nickel, Brecht Cardoen
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A board game to discuss fundamentals in operations management
Brecht Cardoen, Kris Meyers -
Bed Management – Hybrid simulation of a bed logistics flow at a Danish public hospital
Gaspard Hosteins, Allan Larsen, Dario Pacino, Christian Sørup -
Investigating cooperative hospital supply chain operations
Lotte Verdonck, Lien Vanbrabant, Silia Mertens, An Caris -
Healthy Supply Chains: How OR Inventories Can Save Millions
Tammi Hawa, Michael Carter
HC-02: Blood Collection/Supply Planning
Stream: Thursday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
John Blake
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Optimization of blood inventory management – Portuguese Hospital Case Study
Maria Meneses, Inês Marques, Ana Barbosa-Povoa -
Modelling ferritin in Canadian blood donors
John Blake
HC-03: Health Care Appointment Planning II
Stream: Thursday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Fermin Mallor
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Optimizing the invitation process of colon cancer screening
Jasmijn Manders, Richard Boucherie, Gréanne Leeftink, Hans Peter Lifmann -
Modeling Appointment Systems with Strategic Walk-ins
Feray Tuncalp, Evrim Didem Gunes, E. Lerzan Ormeci -
Comparison of percentage prolonged times to tracheal extubation between a Japanese teaching hospital and one in the United States
Franklin Dexter
Thursday, 18:00-19:30
HD-01: e-Conference Dinner
Stream: Thursday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann, Marion Rauner, Patrick Hirsch, Inês Marques, Roberto Aringhieri
Friday
Friday, 9:30-11:30
FA-01: ÖGOR Health Session
Stream: Friday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann, Marion Rauner
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An integrated framework to combine blood collection planning and inventory management
Ettore Lanzarone, Semih Yalçındağ, Inês Marques, Luís Miguel Barros Dias Sousa -
The power of motivation: Co-production of an m-health application for patients with obesity
Doris Behrens, Daniel Gartner -
A duration-distributed model of COVID-19 epidemics
Raimund Kovacevic, Nikolaos Stilianakis, Vladimir Veliov
FA-02: Clinical Pathways
Stream: Friday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
Elena Tanfani
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A perishable inventory approach for capacity planning in cancer pathways
Edilson Arruda, Paul Harper, Tracey England, Daniel Gartner, Emma Aspland, Fabrício Ourique -
Peri-operative elective path optimization through math-heuristic algorithms in the Local Health Authority of Bologna
Marco Leonessi, Stefano Guicciardi, Annamaria Longanesi, Enrico Malaguti, Paolo Tubertini
FA-03: Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy Scheduling
Stream: Friday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Alejandra Duenas
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Chemotherapy production bilevel problem: Cost versus delay
Alexis Robbes, Yannick Kergosien, Jean-Charles Billaut -
MCDA modelling in an outpatient chemotherapy service
Alejandra Duenas, Annabelle Glaize, Christine Di Martinelly, Isabelle Fagnot -
Online algorithms for the radiotherapy patient scheduling problem
Roberto Aringhieri, Davide Duma, Giuseppe Squillace
Friday, 12:00-14:00
FB-01: ÖGOR Disaster Session
Stream: Friday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Patrick Hirsch, Tina Wakolbinger, Walter Gutjahr
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Orchestrating Coordination between Humanitarian Organizations
Maria Besiou, Lea Ruesch, Murat Tarakci, Niels Van Quaquebeke -
Outsourcing in humanitarian logistics - status quo and future directions
Tina Wakolbinger, Timo Gossler, Christian Burkart -
Dynamic Prioritized Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling in Emergencies and Routine Services
Sibel Salman, Ahmet Çınar, Ozgur Araz
FB-02: Health Care Modelling in Developing Countries
Stream: Friday
Room: 2
Chair(s):
Honora Smith, David Barrera Ferro
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Sustainability in Hospital Supply Chain Management: Empirical research in a developing country in Latin America
Veronica Duque-Uribe, William Sarache, Elena Valentina Gutiérrez -
Contract Analysis for Rotavirus Vaccine Supply Chain in India
Dheeraj Chandra, Vipin B -
Resource delivery and allocation strategies for epidemic response in a rural context
Linke Potgieter, Dean Matter
FB-03: Health Care Workforce Scheduling II
Stream: Friday
Room: 3
Chair(s):
Monica Oliveira
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A decomposition-based heuristic procedure for the Medical Student Scheduling problem
Babak Akbarzadeh, Broos Maenhout -
A multi-objective approach for staff scheduling at emergency medical services
Mariana Mesquita-Cunha, Pieter Smet, Inês Marques, Ana Barbosa-Povoa -
Nurse Scheduling for a Community Health Centre in Vancouver, Canada, using an Optimization and Simulation Approach
Samantha Zimmerman, Alan Bi, Trevor Dallow, Krisztina Vasarhelyi, Cameron Bye, Nicole Latham, Andy Day, David Hall, Tamon Stephen, Alexander Rutherford
Friday, 15:00-16:00
FC-01: ORAHS Business Meeting
Stream: Friday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Inês Marques, Roberto Aringhieri
Friday, 16:30-18:30
FD-01: Closing Session
Stream: Friday
Room: 1
Chair(s):
Marion Rauner, Margit Sommersguter-Reichmann, Patrick Hirsch, Roberto Aringhieri, Inês Marques