BACKGROUND Influenza is a major cause of illness, disruption to daily life, and work absenteeism among healthy working adults aged between 18 and 64 years. This group is not included among the traditional priority groups for annual vaccination. Immunization rates remain low. OBJECTIVE To assess the economic implications of a strategy for annual vaccination of this group. METHODS Using the s...

In this article, a finite horizon, multi product and multi period economic order quantity like seasonal items is considered where demand rate is deterministic and known but variable in each period. The order quantities of items come in batch sizes and the end of the period order quantity and, consequently, demand of customers are zero. In addition, storage space is constrained and the problem...

Certain inventory items are living organisms, for example livestock, and are therefore capable of growing during the replenishment cycle. These items often serve as various saleable food items downstream in supply chains. The purpose of this paper is to develop a lot sizing model for growing items if the supplier of the items offers incremental quantity discounts. A mathematical model is derive...

demand is assumed constant in the classical economic order quantity (eoq) model. however, in the real world, the demand is dependent on many factors such as the selling price, warranty of product and marketing effort. in addition pricing and ordering quantity decisions are interdependent for a seller when demand for the product is price sensitive in the inventory models. these types of models a...

This section is devoted to the Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) model, its specialization to the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model and its extension to allow backorders. The next section deals with multiple products. The primary driver to hold inventories is the presence of a fixed production/ordering cost that is incurred every time a positive number of units are produced/ordered. We wish ...

In this paper we introduce the optimal solution for a simple and yet practical inventory policy with the important characteristic which eliminates the uncertainty in demand for suppliers. In this new policy which is different from the classical inventory policies, the time interval between any two consecutive orders is fixed and the quantity of each order is one. Assuming the fixed ordering cos...

OBJECTIVE To examine the financial impact health information exchange (HIE) in emergency departments (EDs). MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied all ED encounters over a 13-month period in which HIE data were accessed in all major emergency departments Memphis, Tennessee. HIE access encounter records were matched with similar encounter records without HIE access. Outcomes studied were ED-originat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the costs and benefits of neonatal screening for phenylketonuria (PKU) and congenital hypothyroidism (CH). Neonatal screening for PKU and CH is common throughout the developed world. It represents a model of preventive care in that the screening procedure is simple and intellectual disability is otherwise irreversible. Changes in treatment and care, and in particular the a...

We study a single-product periodic-review inventory model in which the ordering quantity is either zero or at least a minimum order size+ The ordering cost is a linear function of the ordering quantity, and the demand in different time periods are independent random variables+ The objective is to characterize the inventory policies that minimize the total discounted ordering, holding, and backo...

Many kinds of reorder point reorder quantity policies with an emergency order, in which we can decide when the expedited order point is reached and then we place an expedited replenishment order, have been presented in earlier contributions. Very few studies on cyclic inventory control with an emergency order, however, have been reported. The purpose of this paper is to establish some analytica...