Fraser Health uses mathematical programming to plan its inpatient hospital network

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Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 196-208

  Santibáñez, Pablo ^a   Bekiou, Georgia ^b   Yip, Kenneth ^c  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b FRASER HEALTH AUTHORITY   (Canada)

^c QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Applications; Health care; Hospitals; Integer; Optimization; Programming; Service configuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651123115     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1080.0405     Document Type: Article

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