"This handbook provides a broad healthcare context for operational research/management science (OR/MS) researchers with an encyclopedic account of the most vexing international healthcare issues. In addition, the handbook features a practical guide for OR/MS researchers to learn the most important quantitative research tools in conducting healthcare research, including classical OR techniques enhanced with game theory (such as queuing games); classical economics methods enhanced by operational considerations (like matching markets); econometrics; and data-science methods (from statistics and machine learning)"-- Provided by publisher.

Organizational Structure -- Access to Healthcare -- Market Design -- Competing Interests -- Quality of Care -- Personalized Medicine -- Global Health -- Healthcare Supply Chain -- Organ Transplantation -- Ambulatory Care -- Inpatient Care -- Residential Care -- Concierge Medicine -- Markov Decision Processes -- Game Theory and Information Economics -- Queueing Games -- Econometric Methods -- Data Science.