Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS

Health Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-175

  Hulshof, Peter J H ^a   Kortbeek, Nikky ^a,b   Boucherie, Richard J ^a   Hans, Erwin W ^a   Bakker, Piet J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

health care management; literature review; management science; operations research; resource capacity planning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MANAGER; REVIEW; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84887068535     PISSN: 20476965     EISSN: 20476973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hs.2012.18     Document Type: Review

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