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Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management pp 23–51Cite as

A Comprehensive Survey on Healthcare Management

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Abstract

Healthcare management (HCM) is the profession providing control and guidance to health service providers. Numerous quantitative and qualitative techniques including operations research (OR) techniques, statistical analyses, multi-criteria decision making techniques, etc. have been applied to healthcare problems. This chapter summarizes these techniques using a classification and presents graphical analyses of the survey results.

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Cevik Onar, S., Oztaysi, B., Kahraman, C. (2018). A Comprehensive Survey on Healthcare Management. In: Kahraman, C., Topcu, Y. (eds) Operations Research Applications in Health Care Management. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 262. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65455-3_2

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