Special Issue on “OR in Healthcare”

• Published date: 01 November 2020
• Date: 01 November 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12837

Intl. Trans. in Op. Res. 27 (2020) 3178–3179

DOI: 10.1111/itor.12837

INTERNATIONAL

TRANSACTIONS

IN OPERATIONAL

RESEARCH

Call for Papers

Special Issue on “OR in Healthcare”

Guest Editors

Evrim Gunesa, Inês Marquesband Ana Vianac

aKoç 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:

• Public health policies

• Performance evaluation

• Incentive contracts and payment systems

• Screening and prevention

• Health care logistics and supply chains

• Health care resource and capacity planning

• Locationproblemsinhealthcare

• Workforce scheduling

• Patient and appointment scheduling

• Operating room planning and scheduling

• Emergency medical systems

• Home care and long-term care

• Blood services

• Disease modeling and policy

• Cancer treatment planning

• Infectious diseases

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