Ger Koole

Submitted papers:

Implementing rapid cancer diagnositics (with Anne van der Werf, Sonja Zweegman and others).

Refereed papers:

Modeling COVID-19 hospital admissions and occupancy in the Netherlands (with René Bekker and Michiel uit het Broek).
European Journal of Operational Research 304(1):207-218, 2023.
An adaptive priority policy for radiotherapy scheduling (with Siqiao Li and Xiaolan Xie).
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 32:154-180, 2020.
Flexible bed allocations for hospital wards (with René Bekker and Dennis Roubos).
Health Care Management Science 20(4):453-466, 2017.
On the performance of small-scale living facilities in nursing homes: a simulation approach (with Dennis Moeke, Ruben van de Geer and René Bekker).
Operations Research for Health Care 11:20-34, 2016.
What are we waiting for? Factors influencing completion times in an academic and peripheral emergency department (with Irene Vegting and 10 others).
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine 73(7):331-340, 2015.
Task scheduling in long-term care facilities: A client-centered approach (with Alexander Lieder, Dennis Moeke and Raik Stolletz).
Operations Research for Health Care 6:11-17, 2015.
Simulation-based optimization of staffing levels in an emergency department (with Karim Ghanes and others).
Simulation 91(10):942-953, 2015.
Implementation of internet treatment for depression and anxiety in routine mental health care: Results from a naturalistic study (with Robin Kenter and others).
Internet Interventions 2(1):77-83, 2015.
Scale and skill mix efficiencies in nursing home staffing: Inside the black box (with Dennis Moeke and Lineke Verkooijen).
Health Systems 3:18–28, 2014.
Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling with emergency arrivals and general service times (with Paulien Koeleman).
IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 2(1):14-30, 2012.
Improving CT scan capabilities with a new trauma workflow concept: Simulation of hospital logistics using different CT scanner scenarios (with Korik Alons, Marcel Dijkgraaf, P.H.P. Fung Kon Jin, C. van Kuijk, L.F.M. Beenen, and Carel Goslings).
European Journal of Radiology 80(2):504-509, 2011.
Analyzing completion times in an academic Emergency Department: Coordination of care is the weakest link (with Annemieke van Dongen and 6 others).
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine 69(9):392-398, 2011.
Dimensioning hospital wards using the Erlang loss model (with Arnoud de Bruin, René Bekker, and Lillian van Zanten).
Annals of Operations Research 178:23-43, 2010.
Optimal outpatient appointment scheduling (with Guido Kaandorp).
Health Care Management Science 10:217-229, 2007.
Modeling the emergency cardiac in-patient flow: An application of queueing theory (with Arnoud de Bruin, Bert van Rossum, and Marieke Visser).
Health Care Management Science 10:125-137, 2007.

Other scientific papers:

A comprehensive simulation modeling of an emergency department: a case study for simulation optimization of staffing levels (with Karim Ghanes and others). Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference.
Appointment scheduling using optimization via simulation (with Paulien Koeleman).
Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference.
An evaluation of a Shockroom located CT scanner: a Randomized study of Early Assessment by CT scanning in Trauma patients in the bi-located Trauma center North-West Netherlands (REACT trial) (with 13 others).
BMC Emergency Medicine 8(10), 2008.
Bottleneck analysis of emergency cardiac in-patient flow in a university setting: an application of queueing theory (with Arnoud de Bruin and Marieke Visser).
Clinical and Investigative Medicine 28(6): 316-317, 2005.

Publications in the professional literature:

Kwantitatieve methoden voor zorglogistiek (with René Bekker).
Part 2 of Logistiek in de Zorg - P2 Capaciteit en Aanbod, LogiZ, pages 79-122, 2011.
Grootte van Zorgeenheden (with Arnoud de Bruin, Ben Nijman, Rien Caljouw, and Marieke Visser).
Zorgvisie 37(4):29, 2007.
Logistiek in de gezondheidszorg: Een bedrijfskundige benadering (with Jan Jurriens).
Technologie in de Gezondheidszorg 22(3):5-7, 2006.

Popular-scientific articles:

Op tijd naar het toilet door data-gedreven capaciteitsplanning (with Dennis Moeke and René Bekker).
To appear in STAtOR.
Ehealth verhoogt efficiëntie en kwaliteit van gezondheidszorg.
Reformatorisch Dagblad 24 February 2011, pages 7-8.

Interviews:

Books:

Methoden en modellen voor zorglogistiek (with René Bekker).
MG books, Amsterdam, 2013.
Optimization of business processes.
Lecture notes.

Editorial work:

Press articles:

A crowbar to pry open healthcare and fight inefficiency.
ORTEC, 2022.
Sneldiagnose kanker: Hogere wiskunde in de zorg.
Synaps 76:14-15, December 2010.
Pilot met diagnostische zorgpaden van start.
VUmc Tracer 10:7, 4 June 2009.