Forecasting Emergency Department Crowding: A Discrete Event Simulation

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 116-125

  Hoot, Nathan R ^a   LeBlanc, Larry J ^b   Jones, Ian ^a   Levin, Scott R ^c   Zhou, Chuan ^a   Gadd, Cynthia S ^a   Aronsky, Dominik ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROWDING; EMERGENCY WARD; FORECASTING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSFER; ROC CURVE;

EID: 48949116379     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.12.011     Document Type: Article

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