Real-time patients assignment: A method for improving emergency department flow

2010 IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management, WHCM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mazier, Alexandre ^a   Xie, Xiaolan ^a   Sarazin, Marianne ^b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier de Firminy   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; EMERGENCY PATIENTS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; REAL-TIME DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; WAITING-TIME;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; EMERGENCY ROOMS;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77952516410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHCM.2010.5441274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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