At a time when big operations have become about as archaic as the dial telephone and the manual typewriter, hip replacement surgery has remained one of the last vestiges of medicine requiring a long ...

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...

Having a total hip replacement increases the risk of a stroke in the year after the operation, according to records of patients in Denmark. Data from more than 66,000 operations showed the odds of a ...

The goal of "Practice Abstracts" is to present interesting, topical, and novel applications of operations research methodology to a wide range of industrial applications. "Practice Abstracts" are ...

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