A model for planning resource requirements in health care organizations

Decision Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 243-270

  Bretthauer, Kurt M ^a   Côté, Murray J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity Planning; Health Care Systems; Mathematical Programming; Queueing Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032439273     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1998.tb01351.x     Document Type: Article

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