Estimating business loss to a hospital emergency department from patient reneging by queuing-based regression

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2007 - Industrial Engineering's Critical Role in a Flat World - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 613-618

  Broyles, James R ^a   Cochran, Jeffery K ^a  

^a AZ 85281   (United States)

Author keywords

Business loss; Emergency department; Queuing theory; Regression; Reneging

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EMERGENCY ROOMS; EXHIBITIONS; FINANCE; FOOD PROCESSING; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NUMBER THEORY; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; WELL STIMULATION;

ANNUAL CONFERENCE; BUSINESS LOSS; CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; NONLINEAR REGRESSION (NLR); PRODUCTION NETWORKS; REGRESSION (R2);

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 44949224419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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