Simulation analysis of appointment scheduling in an outpatient department of internal medicine

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2264-2273

  Wijewickrama, Athula ^a   Takakuwa, Soemon ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PERSONNEL SELECTION;

APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING; DOCTORS; SIMULATION MODELS;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 33846690839     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2005.1574515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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