Journal ArticlesPublished

  • Chuang, Y., Zargoush, M., Ghazalbash, S., Samiedaluie, S. (2022). “A Machine Learning-Enabled Optimization for Long-Term Care Placements Among Older Adults with Delayed Discharge. Productions & Operations Management.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Zargoush, M., Mowbray, F., Costa, A. (2022). “Impact of multimorbidity and frailty on adverse outcomes among older delayed discharge patients: implications for healthcare policy”; Health Policy.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Zargoush, M., Mowbray, F., & Papaioannou, A. (2021). “Examining the Predictability and Prognostication of Multimorbidity Among Older Delayed-Discharge Patients: A Machine Learning Analytics”. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 104597. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104597.
  • Zargoush, M., Sameh, A., Javadi, M., Shabani, S., Ghazalbash, S., Perri, D. (2021).On the Significance of Recency and Adequacy of Historical Information in Early Predictions of Sepsis: Machine Learning Insights”, Nature Scientific Report.
  • Nouei, M. T., Kamyad, A. V., Sarzaeem, M., & Ghazalbash, S. (2016). “Fuzzy risk assessment of mortality after coronary surgery using a combination of adaptive neuro‐fuzzy inference system and K‐means clustering”. Expert Systems, John Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1111/exsy.12145.
  • Nouei, M. T., Kamyad, A. V., Sarzaeem, M., & Ghazalbash, S. (2014). “Developing a genetic fuzzy system for risk assessment of mortality after cardiac surgery”. Journal of medical systems, 38(10), 1-9, DOI: 10.1007/s10916-014-0102-5. 
  • Nouei, M. T., Kamyad, A. V., Soroush, A. R., & Ghazalbash, S. (2015). “A comprehensive operating room information system using the Kinect sensors and RFID”. Journal of clinical monitoring and computing, 29(2), 251-261. DOI: 10.1007/s10877-014-9591-5.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Sepehri, M. M., Shadpour, P., & Atighehchian, A. (2012). “Operating room scheduling in teaching hospitals”. Advances in Operations Research, Hindawi. DOI: 10.1155/2012/548493.

Journal Articles-Under preparation

  • Ghazalbash, S., Zargoush, M., Verter, V. (2022). “Data-Driven Decision-Making Modeling of Continuity of Care: Predictive and Economic Investigations of Care Fragmentation in the Aging Population”. Prepared to submit to “Production and Operation Management” journal. Status: under submission (90%)
  • Zargoush, M., Ghazalbash, S. “A Bayesian Clinical Decision Support for Personalized Treatment Pathways of Type 2 Diabetes”. Under preparation for submission to the Decision Support Systems (A*-rank journal on the ABDC list). Status: drafting (80%)
  • Zargoush, M., Ghazalbash, S. “Semi-Markov Chains Simplify Analysis of Complex Sequence of Events: Application of Big Data Analysis in Operations Management”.  Under preparation for submission to the Productions & Operations Management (FT50-listed journal). Status: drafting (80%)
  • Zargoush, M., Madani, M., Ghazalbash, S. “Measurement of Catastrophic Risks for Functional Disability”, Under preparation for submission to the International Journal of Medical Informatics (A-rank journal on the ABDC list). Status: Interpretation (40%)
  • Zargoush, M., Hameed, D., Ghazalbash, S. “Determinants of Delayed Discharge among Older Adults in Canada: A Longitudinal Socioeconomic Perspective”, Under preparation for submission to the Health Policy (A-rank journal on the ABDC list). Status: drafting (70%)
  • Ghazalbash, S., Zargoush, M., Ahmadi, F., “Machine Learning Predictions of Alternate Level of Care (ALC) in Canada: From Emergency Department to the in-Hospital Stage”, Under preparation for submission to International Journal of Medical Informatics (A-rank journal on the ABDC list). Status: drafting (65%)
  • Christopher, D., Grewal, K., Ghazalbash, S., Mowbray, F., Zargoush, M., de Wit, K., “Identifying which emergency department patients should be tested for pulmonary embolism,” Under preparation for submission International Journal of Medical Informatics (A-rank journal on the ABDC list). Status: Analysis (50%)

Abstracts

  • Ghazalbash, S., Zargoush, M. (2021). “Adverse outcomes among delayed-discharge older patients with multimorbidity and frailty”. Accepted abstract in the Special Issue on “Multiple Chronic Conditions” (sponsored by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) and invited for full-paper submission by Health Services Research.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Zargoush, M. (2021). Developing Personalized Treatment Pathways of Type-II Diabetes through Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics“, Accepted abstract in Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), June 7−10, 2021, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Mulvale, G. (2020). “An Integrated Framework for Comprehensive Policy Analysis: The Case of Iranian National Hospital Accreditation.”; Accepted abstract in CAHSPR, May 26-28, 2020 in Saskatoon, Canada.
  • Zargoush, M., Alemi, F., Ghazalbash, S. (2018).“Experience of Disability Among Older Adults”; Accepted abstract in INFORMS annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ, November 4-7, 2018.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Nouei, M., A. V. Kamyad, M.R. Sarzaeem. (2017). “Online Hierarchical Fuzzy Expert System for Mortality Risk Assessment after Cardiac surgery”; Accepted abstract in IEEE Technically Sponsored Computing Conference, 2017.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Kamyad, A. V., Sarzaeem M.R. (2013). “Fuzzy Clustering Analysis of Risk Factors for Mortality after CABG Based on AHP”; Accepted abstract in ORAHS 2013 – Operational Research Applied to Health Services. Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Sepehri, MM., Shadpour, P., Atighehchian, A. (2011). “Optimizing a Multiple Objective Operating Room Scheduling in Teaching Hospitals”; Accepted abstract in the 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making .13–17 June 2011, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
  • Ghazalbash, S., Sepehri, MM., Atighehchian, A. (2011). “Optimization of Surgery Scheduling in Teaching Hospitals”; Accepted abstract in INFORMS HEALTHCARE Conference 2011.20-22 June, Montreal, Canada.