Special Issue on “OR in Healthcare”

• Date: 01 September 2020
• Published date: 01 September 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12790

Intl. Trans. in Op. Res. 27 (2020) 2683–2684

DOI: 10.1111/itor.12790

INTERNATIONAL

TRANSACTIONS

IN OPERATIONAL

RESEARCH

Call for Papers

Special Issue on “OR in Healthcare”

Guest Editors

Evrim Gunesa,In

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es Marquesband Ana Vianac

aKoc¸ University, Turkey

bUniversity of Lisbon, Portugal

cPolytechnic of Porto and INESC TEC, Portugal

The International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) will publish a special issue on OR

in Healthcare at the occasion of the 22nd Triennial Conference of the International Federation of

Operational ResearchSocieties (IFORS 2020) to be held in Seoul, South Korea, from June 21 to 26,

2020. Although we strongly encourage the submission of papers presented at the special sessions

devoted to this subject at the IFORS 2020 conference, this Call for Papers is open to the entire

community of academics and practitioners.

We encourage contributions that illustrate the interplay between theory and practice, with new

and innovative methods or uses of Operations Research methods in all areas of health and health

care. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

rPublic health policies

rPerformance evaluation

rIncentive contracts and payment systems

rScreening and prevention

rHealth care logistics and supply chains

rHealth care resource and capacity planning

rLocation problems in health care

rWorkforce scheduling

rPatient and appointment scheduling

rOperating room planning and scheduling

rEmergency medical systems

rHome care and long-term care

rBlood services

rDisease modeling and policy

rCancer treatment planning

rInfectious diseases

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