Reducing delays for medical appointments: A queueing approach

Operations Research

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1526-1538

  Green, Linda V ^a   Savin, Sergei ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Queues: applications

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL PRACTICES; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PRIMARY CARES; QUEUE SIZES; QUEUEING MODELS; QUEUES: APPLICATIONS; SERVICE TIME; SINGLE-SERVER QUEUEING SYSTEMS; STATE DEPENDENTS; STATIONARY DISTRIBUTIONS;

HEALTH CARE; QUEUEING NETWORKS;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 61449176994     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0575     Document Type: Article

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