Assessing the viability of an Open Access policy in an outpatient clinic: A discrete-event and continuous simulation modeling approach

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2246-2255

  Giachetti, Ronald E ^a   Centeno, Edwin A ^a   Centeno, Martha A ^a   Sundaram, Ramakrishnan ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOSPITALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

CLINIC MANAGEMENT; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; PATIENT APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING; SIMULATION MODELS;

PATIENT MONITORING;

EID: 33846658119     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2005.1574513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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