Managing Variability in Perioperative Services

AORN Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Dempsey, Christina J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

health care costs; patient flow management; queuing theory; specialty teams; variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350465138     PISSN: 00012092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aorn.2009.05.023     Document Type: Article

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