Improving emergency department physician management via computer simulation

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 834-839

  Xu, Samuel ^a   Roger, Paul ^b   Rohleder, Thomas R ^a   Cooke, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrete event simulation; Emergency department flow; Health care; Operational excellence; Physician scheduling

Indexed keywords

CALGARY; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION; DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION MODELS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT FLOW; FLOW LAYERS; HEALTH REGIONS; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE; OPERATIONAL POLICIES; PATIENT INTERACTIONS; PATIENT WAITING TIME; PHYSICIAN SCHEDULING; TWO LAYERS; WORK PRACTICES;

EMERGENCY ROOMS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; SCHEDULING;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 63849210324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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