Reservation planning for elective surgery under uncertain demand for emergency surgery

Management Science

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-334

  Gerchak, Yigal ^a   Gupta, Diwakar ^a   Henig, Mordechai ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Applications; Dynamic Programming; Health Care; Hospitals; Probability; Stochastic Model Applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001288121     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.3.321     Document Type: Article

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