PUBLICATIONS

MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR OPTIMIZING HEALTHCARE PROCESSES

Acute admission departments

Modeling the effect of short stay units on patient admissions

2015

Model to determine the effect of an AOA on planned and emergency admissions. Operations Research for Healthcare.

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Allocating emergency beds improves the emergency admission flow

2018

Model to compare different methods of allocating beds in the nursing unit to acute patients. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics.

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Outpatient clinics & diagnostics

Designing cyclic appointment schedules for outpatient clinics with scheduled and unscheduled arrivals

2014

Model to design grids for outpatient clinics with walk-in and appointment patients. Performance Evaluation.

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Appointments in care pathways: the Geox/D/1 queue with slot reservations

2014

Model to evaluate the effect of claiming spaces for care pathways. Queueing Systems.

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Optimal allocation of MRI scan capacity among competing hospital departments

2012

Model to stimulate the fair distribution of diagnostic capacity. European Journal of Operational Research.

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Redesign of a university hospital preanesthesia evaluation clinic using a queuing theory approach

2009

Model to reduce patient waiting time and employee workload, including implementation in the LUMC. Anesthesia & Analgesia.

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Operating rooms

Allocating operating room capacity to non-elective neurosurgical patients improves access and safety for elective patients at Aarhus University Hospital

2023

Implementation of the model for semi-emergency patients in Aarhus University Hospital (Denmark). British Journal of Neurosurgery.

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Planning and scheduling of semi-urgent surgeries

2010

Model to determine the effect of allocating OR time to semi-emergency patients. Health Care Management Science.

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A Markov modelling approach for surgical process analysis in cataract surgery

2021

Model to describe surgical process variation and predict operation duration. Springer Handbook of Healthcare Logistics.

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PROCESS IMPROVEMENT & HEALTHCARE LOGISTICS GENERAL

Cardiology & Thoracic Surgery

Increasing cardio-thoracic productivity at Erasmus MC

2022

Article about improvement project in the Thoraxcentrum of the Erasmus MC with the aim to increase the number of open heart operations and reduce the access time. Health Systems.

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Increasing surgical productivity at Erasmus Medical Center

2021

Popular scientific article about the aforementioned improvement project. Impact.

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Optimizing your cath lab activity levels: seven deadly sins in cath lab operations management

2017

Popular scientific article on optimizing patient flows in the cath lab (the cardiovascular room). Cath Lab Digest.

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Emergency & Nursing Wards

Development of an observational instrument to determine variations in the patient care process and patient flow among emergency physicians and internists at the emergency department

2013

Process analysis to analyze the effect of different working methods of physicians in the emergency department at the LUMC. International Journal of Emergency Medicine.

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The BedGame – A classroom game based on real healthcare challenges

2017

Serious game to redistribute bed capacity of nursing wards. INFORMS Transactions on Education.

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Operations Research for Occupancy Modeling at Hospital Wards and Its Integration into Practice

2017

Review article of applications of Operations Research models for nursing departments. Springer Operations Research Applications in Healthcare Management.

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