A multi-class queuing network analysis methodology for improving hospital emergency department performance

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1497-1512

  Cochran, Jeffery K ^a   Roche, Kevin T ^b  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AZ 85281   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; Emergency department; Hospitals; Multi class queuing networks

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY ROOMS; GRAPH THEORY; HOSPITALS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY;

ARRIVAL PATTERNS; CAPACITY PLANNING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; DATA ELEMENTS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; MULTI-CLASS QUEUING NETWORKS; OPERATIONAL RESEARCHES; OVERFLOW PROBABILITIES; POPULATION GROWTHS; PUBLIC HEALTHS; QUEUING NETWORK MODELS; QUEUING NETWORKS; REAL TIMES; SEASONAL PEAKS; SERVICE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; WAIT TIMES; WAITING TIMES;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 55749106201     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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