One of the most serious problems for tuberculosis (TB) control is non-adherence to TB treatment. We studied the factors influencing non-adherence to TB treatment in Indonesia to inform TB treatment adherence strategies. We con- ducted semi-structured interviews with non-adherent patients and key informants in Jepara, Central Java, Indonesia. Three major themes were found in reasons for non-adhe...

Pneumonias acquired in a healthcare facility have different epidemiology, risk factors, responsible pathogens, treatments and outcomes than those acquired in the community. Patients with such infections generally have greater mortality and incur greater medical costs. Initially, hospitals were regarded as the major site for this paradigm; more recently, long term care facilities, rehabilitation...

To paraphrase Pierskalla & Brailer [7], capacity planning relates to the optimal selection of resource levels that need to be determined at the time of construction of a new facility. In health care, quantities such as the number of operating rooms, bed spaces or X-ray machines are examples of interest. This is an introductory exploration into capacity management for facilities that treat chron...

In this paper we consider the inverse and reverse network facility location problems with considering the equity on servers. The inverse facility location with equality measure deals with modifying the weights of vertices with minimum cost, such that the difference between the maximum and minimum weights of clients allocated to the given facilities is minimized. On the other hand, the reverse c...

To treat a cluster of tuberculosis (TB) transmission cases in a long-term care facility for cognitively impaired adults located in Puerto Rico (facility A), the Puerto Rico TB Control Program used a novel video directly observed therapy (VDOT) application. In 2016, active TB disease was diagnosed in 11 residents and latent TB infection (LTBI) was diagnosed in six residents of facility A. Asynch...