Fifty years of operational research applied to healthcare: Invited Review in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of EURO

Jeroen Beliën; Sally Brailsford; Erik Demeulemeester; Derya Demirtas; Erwin W. Hans; Paul Harper

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.040

Fifty years of operational research applied to healthcare: Invited Review in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of EURO

Jeroen Beliën^*, Sally Brailsford, Erik Demeulemeester, Derya Demirtas, Erwin W. Hans, Paul Harper

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	189-206
Number of pages	18
Journal	European journal of operational research
Volume	326
Issue number	2
Early online date	22 Dec 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.12.040
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print/First online - 22 Dec 2024

Keywords

Healthcare efficiency
Humanitarian logistics
OR in health services
Public health
Scheduling
Human resource planning
healthcare engineering

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Fifty years of operational research applied to healthcare: Invited Review in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of EURO

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