BACKGROUND Carotid endarterectomy is the most common vascular procedure performed, with an annual cost of $1.2 billion. Efforts to control the cost associated with this procedure include limiting preoperative studies, avoiding admissions to the intensive care unit, and encouraging early postoperative discharge. METHODS To determine our surgical results and the cost associated with this proced...

OBJECTIVES A recent randomized, controlled trial in chronic heart failure patients showed that NT-proBNP-guided, intensive patient management (BMC) on top of multidisciplinary care reduced all-cause mortality and heart failure hospitalizations compared with multidisciplinary care (MC) or usual care (UC). We now performed a cost-utility analysis of these interventions from a payer's perspective....

Vendor managed inventory is a continuous replenishment program that is designed to provide major cost saving benefits for both vendors and retailers. Previous research on this area mainly included single objective optimization models where the objective is to minimize the total supply chain costs or to maximize the total supply chain benefits. This paper presents a bi-objective mathematical mod...

This study aimed to determine the appropriate fashion design elements for product innovation achieve continuous value and promote sustainable fashion. We focused on five elements: classical, transformative, patterned, multimaterial, decorative. Using an apparel auction market dataset, we verified how contributed continuation of products across categories. statistically confirmed that positively...

This paper presents a new mixed integer linear program (MILP) for the optimal short-term scheduling of single stage batch plants with sequence dependent changeovers and optimal selection of the number of batches to produce. It is a continuous-time formulation employing multiple time grids that is based on the resource-task network (RTN) process representation. The main novelty is that aggregate...