Operating Rooms (ORs) are pivotal hospital resources, significantly impacting expenses and revenue. This paper introduces a stochastic bi-objective model for OR allocation and scheduling of elective surgeries, considering surgeons' preferences for specific ORs and preferred start times, as well...

Hospitals are paramount hubs for delivering healthcare services, with their Operating Rooms (ORs) as a pivotal and financially substantial component. Efficient surgery ward planning is crucial in healthcare institutions, aiming to improve medical service quality while reducing costs. This...

Purpose Previous research has demonstrated that social-relational factors are instrumental to employee voice. An essential aspect of this relates to notions of respect or disrespect. Although nurses commonly report experiencing professional disrespect in their interaction with doctors, earlier...

Background Aortic stenosis is a prevalent heart valvular disorder in Iran. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) are two common procedures for treating the disease in the current clinical pathway. However, TAVI is an expensive procedure, and...

Problem Definition: Medical operations require a large volume and variety of consumable supplies that are kept in hospital inventory and replenished on a regular basis. Stringent requirements on the availability of these supplies together with high variability in their daily usage contributes to...

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a major public health concern, as it is the most common birth defect and the leading cause of death in the frst year of life if adequate surgical interventions were not provided. Unfortunately, in Lebanon, a country that has been assailed by devastating social...

Background Between 2008 and 2018, the share of robotic-assisted surgeries (RAS) for radical prostatectomies (RPEs) has increased from 3 to 46% in Germany. Firstly, we investigate if this difusion of RAS has contributed to RPE treatment centralization. Secondly, we analyze if a hospital's use of...

This paper investigates the potential of new technologies to reduce disparities in the provision of healthcare services. Differences in providers’ skills may cause variation in patient outcomes. The adoption of innovations, like robots, can attenuate this problem if technological gains are...

Cosmetic surgery is a surgical specialty concerned with preserving, restoring, or improving a person’s appearance. Cosmetic surgery is evolving rapidly, both in terms of technology and concept. Besides, media can create problems and solutions to them in today’s consumer culture context....

This paper investigates the potential of new technologies to reduce disparities in the provision of healthcare services. Differences in providers' skills may cause variation in patient outcomes. The adoption of innovations, like robots, can attenuate this problem if technological gains are...

Physical tools often privilege the average characteristics of the male body. However, technological advances sometimes introduce more adaptable tools which are adjustable and require less physical force to operate. We investigate whether the introduction of such tools correlates with better job...

Background The clinical value and cost-effectiveness of invasive treatments for patients with coronary artery disease is unclear. Invasive treatments such as coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention are frequently used as a starting treatment, yet they are much more...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the factors that motivate young people’s intention to undergo cosmetic surgery in Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach This study applies Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior as a research model. The study is based on a quantitative method that...

This paper investigates the potential of new technologies to reduce disparities in the provision of healthcare services. Differences in providers’ skills may cause variation in patient outcomes. The adoption of innovations, like robots, can attenuate this problem if technological gains are...

Dieser Bericht untersucht die Folgen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf das Leistungsgeschehen der Krankenhäuser in Deutschland. Er untersucht außerdem, ob die im Jahr 2021 geleisteten Ausgleichszahlungen die Erlösminderungen der Krankenhäuser aufgrund des Rückgangs der Leistungsmenge ausgleichen...

Modern Aesthetic Patient Experience -- Business of Branding & Rebranding -- Strategic Primer for Digital Marketing -- Optimizing the Marketing Mothership -- Content Marketing Pearls for Platforms -- Social Media Strategies Revisited -- Now Entering the Metaverse -- Multimedia Communication in...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide details of the development and applications of surgical robots. Design/methodology/approach Following a short introduction, this first provides a historical background to surgical robot developments. The following sections discuss applications,...

In this paper we estimate the returns associated with the provision of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, by payer type (Medicare, HMO, etc.). Because reliable measures of prices and treatment costs are often unobserved, we seek to infer returns from hospital entry behavior. We...