The Effect of Patient Load on Physician Service Times

Proceedings - Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2107-2112

  Salzarulo, Peter A ^a   Bretthauer, Kurt M ^a   Côté, Murray J ^b   Schultz, Kenneth L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATIENT LOAD; PHYSICIAN SERVICE TIMES;

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONNEL; PUBLIC POLICY; QUEUEING NETWORKS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 1642523278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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