Kevin Taaffe

Kevin Taaffe

Clemson University

H-index: 25

North America-United States

About Kevin Taaffe

Kevin Taaffe, With an exceptional h-index of 25 and a recent h-index of 15 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Clemson University, specializes in the field of simulation, healthcare systems, optimization, human behavior modeling.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Separate rooms for patient induction, case set-up and breakdown: Innovative operating room turnover through quality management

Forecasting Patient Arrivals and Optimizing Physician Shift Scheduling in Emergency Departments

Effectiveness of Transitional Care Program among High-Risk Discharged Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study on Saving Costs, Post-Discharge Readmissions and Emergency Department …

Hybrid multi-objective evolutionary meta-heuristics for a parallel machine scheduling problem with setup times and preferences

Evaluating Physician Stress During Patient Handoffs: Analysis of Physician Heart Rate Variability, Patient Handoff Characteristics, and ED Metrics

Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions

Risk-adjusted policies to minimise perioperative staffing shortages during a pandemic: An agent-based simulation study

How Does Imaging Impact Patient Flow in Emergency Departments?

Kevin Taaffe Information

University

Position

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Citations(all)

1766

Citations(since 2020)

830

Cited By

1203

hIndex(all)

25

hIndex(since 2020)

15

i10Index(all)

54

i10Index(since 2020)

24

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Kevin Taaffe Skills & Research Interests

simulation

healthcare systems

optimization

human behavior modeling

Top articles of Kevin Taaffe

Separate rooms for patient induction, case set-up and breakdown: Innovative operating room turnover through quality management

Quality Management Journal

2024/1

Forecasting Patient Arrivals and Optimizing Physician Shift Scheduling in Emergency Departments

2023/12/10

Effectiveness of Transitional Care Program among High-Risk Discharged Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study on Saving Costs, Post-Discharge Readmissions and Emergency Department …

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

2023/12/2

Kevin Taaffe
Kevin Taaffe

H-Index: 14

Hybrid multi-objective evolutionary meta-heuristics for a parallel machine scheduling problem with setup times and preferences

Computers & Industrial Engineering

2023/11/1

Kevin Taaffe
Kevin Taaffe

H-Index: 14

Evaluating Physician Stress During Patient Handoffs: Analysis of Physician Heart Rate Variability, Patient Handoff Characteristics, and ED Metrics

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

2023/9

Operating room design using agent-based simulation to reduce room obstructions

Health care management science

2023/6

Risk-adjusted policies to minimise perioperative staffing shortages during a pandemic: An agent-based simulation study

Epidemiology & Infection

2023

How Does Imaging Impact Patient Flow in Emergency Departments?

2022/12/11

Dynamic simulation of social media challenge participation to examine intervention strategies

Journal of Computational Social Science

2022/11

Overlapping shifts to improve patient safety and patient flow in emergency departments

Simulation

2022/11

Patient Safety Incident Reporting in Sterile Processing: A Systems Perspective

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

2022/9

A data driven policy to minimise the tuberculosis testing cost among healthcare workers

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management

2022/9

Understanding “Work as Done”: Using a Structured Video-Based Observational Method to Understand and Model the Role of the Physical Environment in Complex Clinical Work Systems

HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal

2022/7

Introducing preferences in scheduling applications

Computers & Industrial Engineering

2022/1/1

Kevin Taaffe
Kevin Taaffe

H-Index: 14

Physician shift scheduling to improve patient safety and patient flow in the emergency department

2021/12/12

Proactive evaluation of an operating room prototype: A simulation-based modeling approach

Journal of Patient Safety

2021/12/1

Kevin Taaffe
Kevin Taaffe

H-Index: 14

Herminia Machry
Herminia Machry

H-Index: 3

Emergency physicians’ workstation design: an observational study of interruptions and perception of collaboration during shift-end handoffs

HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal

2021/10

Rutali Joshi
Rutali Joshi

H-Index: 1

Kevin Taaffe
Kevin Taaffe

H-Index: 14

Simulating the effects of operating room staff movement and door opening policies on microbial load

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

2021/9

Impact of surgical table orientation on flow disruptions and movement patterns during pediatric outpatient surgeries

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

2021/7/31

Work systems analysis of sterile processing: assembly

BMJ quality & safety

2021/4/1

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