Tactical decision making for selective expansion of operating room resources incorporating financial criteria and uncertainty in subspecialties' future workloads

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1425-1432

  Dexter, Franklin ^a,b   Ledolter, Johannes ^c   Wachtel, Ruth E ^c  

^a Division of Management Consulting   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; MEDICAL EXPERT; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; WORKLOAD;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PHYSICIANS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 17744382002     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000149898.45044.3D     Document Type: Article

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