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作者：Wang, Xiaofang; Wu, Qi; Lai, Guoming; Scheller-Wolf, Alan
作者单位：Renmin University of China; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：This study studies discretionary healthcare services with consumption of medical goods (e.g., tests, drugs). Specifically, we focus on a setting where the service provider obtains revenue from the medical consumption, and the perceived service value improves while the amount of medical consumption decreases in the service time (e.g., due to more thorough inquiry and examination). We find that the equilibrium service and demand rates both decrease if the service provider's share of revenue from...
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作者：Roth, Aleda; Tucker, Anita L.; Venkataraman, Sriram; Chilingerian, Jon
作者单位：Clemson University; Boston University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Brandeis University
摘要：Hospital decision-makers face trade-offs that make it difficult to obtain the trifecta of high performance on clinical quality, patient experience, and technical efficiency. We use the term triple aim performance (TAP) to refer to the simultaneous achievement of these three goals. Using datasets from 2010 and 2012 and data envelopment analysis, we identify about 20 triple aim performance hospitals in each year among U.S. acute care hospitals with at least 200 beds. We also examine factors that...
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作者：Bensoussan, Alain; Xie, Yangyang; Yan, Houmin
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; City University of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：In this study, we provide an alternative approach for proving the preservation of concavity together with submodularity, and apply it to finite-horizon non-stationary joint inventory-pricing models with general demands. The approach characterizes the optimal price as a function of the inventory level. Further, it employs the Cauchy-Schwarz and arithmetic-geometric mean inequalities to establish a relation between the one-period profit and the profit-to-go function in a dynamic programming sett...
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作者：Akkas, Arzum
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：Product expiration is an important problem in the consumer-packaged-goods industry eroding profits and generating substantial waste. We propose that shelf space selection can be an operational lever to control expiration of perishable inventory. To this end, we first explain the conditions under which shelf space impacts expiration then develop a method to determine the appropriate level of shelf space which incorporates this impact. We formulate a shelf space selection problem for a single pr...
