Process modeling of emergency department patient flow: Effect of patient length of stay on ED diversion

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 389-401

  Kolker, Alexander ^a  

^a Children's Hospital and Health Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; ED diversion; Length of stay; Process model simulation; What if scenarios

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; EMERGENCY CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; WAITING ROOM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT TRANSFER;

EID: 51349101260     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-008-9144-x     Document Type: Article

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