Open access appointment scheduling - An experience at a community clinic

2006 IIE Annual Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Delaurentis, Po Ching ^a   Kopach, Renata ^a   Rardin, Ronald ^a   Lawley, Mark ^a   Muthuraman, Kumar ^a   Wan, Hong ^a   Ozsen, Leyla ^a   Intrevado, Paul ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Appointment scheduling; Open access; Outpatient clinic; Queueing network; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING; OPEN ACCESS SYSTEM; OUTPATIENT CLINIC; QUEUEING NETWORK;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 36448938722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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