Simulating the effect of physician triage in the emergency department of akershus university hospital

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1896-1905

  Holm, Lene Berge ^a   Dahl, Fredrik A ^a  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; PATIENT FLOW; PATIENT WAITING TIME; SIMULATION MODEL; WAITING-TIME;

EMERGENCY ROOMS;

EID: 77951533619     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2009.5429204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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