Case management has evolved from a grassroots method to assist patients and facilities to navigate changes in the healthcare system, to a fully fledged profession with core competencies, Standards of Practice, and an evidence-based peer review journal. With the latest healthcare reform, it is clear that case management leads to many initiatives: it is our time to lead.

In this issue of the Journal, Etzioni et al. (1) suggest a novel approach to estimating overdiagnosis in breast cancer. However, there is a key assumption in their method regarding the nature of overdiagnosis that is unlikely to hold and leads to an underestimate of the overdiagnosis rate. To understand this assumption, we need to go back to basic definitions. Lead time is the time from detecti...

The Exorcist (1971; “E”) by William Peter Blatty, one of horror’s all time greatest bestsellers, starts off with three quotations and three names. The first quotation is from the Bible, from the famous possession narrative in the gospel of Luke (8:27-30). The second is an excerpt from a FBI recording of two Mafia killers laughing and discussing how they had hung their victim on a meat hook and ...

We present a novel single facility due-date quotation model and algorithm, and characterize the effectiveness of this algorithm employing the tools of probabilistic analysis. This model is intended to be a building block for the models that we will use to analyze due date quotation in make-to-order supply chains, and we present a summary of these models.

In several sections of our review paper, cited in the title, we have found some errors in quotation of sentences from the Dr. Aaron Spital's review article entitled " Diure-tic-induced hyponatremia " published in American Journal of Nephrology 19:447-452, 1999. Quotation marks were missed, and we should have specifically acknowledged the source of our statements.

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• A submitted manuscript is the author's version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website. • The final author version ...

We consider the dynamic order acceptance and capacity planning problem under limited regular and non-regular resources. The goal consists of maximizing the expected profits of the accepted projects within a finite problem horizon. Capacity planning is a useful tool to support tactical decisions such as due-date quotation, price quotation and hiring non-regular capacity. The way the projects are...