Overbooking increases patient access at East Carolina University's student health services clinic

Interfaces

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 271-287

  Kros, John ^a   Dellana, Scott ^a   West, David ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Health care; Probability: Applications; Production scheduling; Simulation; Stochastic model applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651115833     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1090.0437     Document Type: Article

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