Dear All,
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE MODELLING IN HEALTHCARE STREAM OF THIS YEAR’S
OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY CONFERENCE
This year’s Operational Research Society Conference is being held in Edinburgh
from 4th – 6th September. The modelling in healthcare stream provides the
opportunity to present case studies or methodological pieces of work which
assist healthcare decision-makers.
Deadline for abstract submission is March 30th 2007. Please submit your
abstracts on the OR society website:
www.orsoc.org.uk/conference/papersubmission/conference_submit.asp?cid=14.
Examples may include, but are not limited to:
• Service planning techniques;
The use of mathematical models to support resource and capacity planning on a
local and national level, e.g. estimating future demand for A&E departments.
• Disease models;
The application of OR techniques to inform clinical and policy decision-making,
e.g. comparing the cost-effectiveness of chemotherapy options for the treatment
of women with breast cancer.
• Research planning and prioritisation;
The use of value of information methods to quantify existing levels of
uncertainty and to subsequently identify and prioritise those areas in which
further research would be most valuable, e.g. identifying research priorities
for MS.
• Methodology development;
The development of new and innovative OR methods to support healthcare
decision-making, e.g. the use of metamodels to analyse computationally
expensive models.
Apologies for any multiple emails.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Hazel.
Hazel Pilgrim, Research Associate,
ScHARR, University of Sheffield,
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street,
Sheffield, S1 4DA.
Direct Line: 0114 222 0765
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