Modelling patient arrivals when simulating an accident and emergency unit

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1509-1515

  Meng, Le Yin ^a   Spedding, Trevor ^b  

^a MOUNT ELIZABETH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION MODELS; PATIENT WAITING TIME; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SIMULATION STUDIES; WAITING-TIME;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 60749100962     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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