Fifty years of operational research applied to healthcare

Beliën, Jeroen, Brailsford, Sally, Demeulemeester, Erik, Demirtas, Derya, Hans, Erwin W. and Harper, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7894-4907 2024. Fifty years of operational research applied to healthcare. European Journal of Operational Research 10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.040 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

This paper gives an overview of five decades of operational research applied to healthcare, structured along nine key application domains: personnel scheduling, blood supply chain management, cancer diagnosis and treatment, emergency medical response and disaster relief, infectious diseases, long-term conditions, diagnostic imaging, public health, and operating room scheduling. Each section summarises the main contributions, developments, recent trends and future research. The review focuses on the European context, which is dominated by public healthcare systems with its specific strengths and challenges.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Mathematics
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0377-2217
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	16 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	21 December 2024
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2025 11:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175200

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