Health economic modeling to support surgery management at a Swedish hospital

Omega

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 853-863

  Persson, Marie ^a   Persson, Jan A ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Health service; Management; Optimization; Scheduling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549087535     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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