Modeling patient arrivals in community clinics

Omega

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-43

  Alexopoulos, Christos ^a   Goldsman, David ^a   Fontanesi, John ^b   Kopald, David ^b   Wilson, James R ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinic scheduling; Johnson system of distributions; Patient arrival process

Indexed keywords

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ARRIVAL PROCESS; ARRIVAL TIME; CLINIC SCHEDULING; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; INTER-ARRIVAL TIME; JOHNSON SYSTEMS OF DISTRIBUTIONS; MODELING AND SIMULATING; PATIENT ARRIVAL PROCESS; POISSON PROCESS; WORK-FLOWS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34247195986     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2005.07.013     Document Type: Article

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