Health care planners in countries with a system based on a National Health Service (NHS) have to make decisions on where to locate and how to organize hospital services, so as to improve the geographic equity of access in the delivery of care while accounting for efficiency and cost issues. This study proposes a hierarchical multiservice mathematical programming model to inform decisions on the...

in this paper, a multi-period and multi-resource operating room (or) scheduling and rescheduling problem with elective and semi-elective (semi-urgent) patients is addressed. a scheduling-rescheduling framework based on the so-called rolling horizon approach is proposed to solve the problem. the core of the proposed framework is a novel proposed mixed-integer linear programming (milp) model with...

this research has tried to find most proper leadership styles based on a approved model to direct hospital manpower appropriately. the main objective of this research was the comparison between manager’s existing leadership styles and suggested styles to them in order to direct existing styles toward suggested ones. in this cross- sectional study all qom province hospital managers participated....

background and objective: thyroid function problems are often present with prematurity disorders. thyroid hormones regulate growth and distinguish body organs; especially they affect central nervous system and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and vitamins. thus, these hormones should be evaluated. the present study aims to determine the mean level of thyroid hormones among premature infants...