Publications
Litvak E, Buerhaus PI, Davidoff F, Long MC, McManus ML, Berwick DM. “Managing Unnecessary Variability in Patient Demand to Reduce Nursing Stress and Improve Patient Safety,” Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2005; 31(6): 330-338.
McManus ML, Long MC, Cooper A, Mandell J, Berwick DM, Pagano M, Litvak E. "Variability in Surgical Caseload and Access to Intensive Care Services." Anesthesiology, 2003; 98: 1491-6.
Litvak E, Long MC, Cooper A, McManus ML. "Emergency Room Diversion: Causes and Solutions." Academic Emergency Medicine, November 2001, 8, No 11, pp. 1108-1110
Litvak E, Long MC. “Cost and quality under managed care: Irreconcilable differences?” The American Journal of Managed Care, 2000; 6, No 3, pp.305-312.
Litvak E, Long MC, Schwartz SJ. “Cost-Effectiveness Analysis under Managed Care: Not yet ready for Prime Time?” Editorial, The American Journal of Managed Care,2000; 6, No 2, pp.254-256.
Litvak E, Siegel JE, Pauker SG, Lallemant M, Fineberg HV, Weinstein MC. “Whose blood is safer? The effect of the stage of the epidemic on screening for HIV.” Medical Decision Making, 1997; 17:455--463.
Litvak E, Tu XM, Pagano M. “Screening for the Presence of a Disease by Pooling Sera Samples.” Journal of American Statistical Association, 1994; 89:424--434.
Litvak E. Chapter 7.7 In: Handbook of Reliability Engineering, editor Ushakov I, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994:156--162.
Colbourn CJ, Litvak E. “Bounding network parameters by approximating graphs.” In Series in Discrete Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 1991:91—104.
Litvak E. “A generalized theorem on negative cycles and estimates of the quality of flow transport in a network.” Soviet Math. Doklady (Proc. of Acad. of Sci), reviewed and submitted by Nobel Prize winner in Economics Professor L.Kantorovitch, 1983; 27:369--371.
Litvak E. “A generalized triangle-star transformation in the investigation of properties of complex networks.” Engineering Cybernetics, 1981; 19:158--162.
Litvak E. “Two-sided estimates of the minimum cost of a flow in a two-terminal network.” Engineering Cybernetics, 1981; 19:132--135.