Planning and scheduling of semi-urgent surgeries

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 256-267

  Zonderland, Maartje E ^a,b   Boucherie, Richard J ^b   Litvak, Nelly ^b   Vleggeert Lankamp, Carmen L A M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emergency patient flow; Markov decision processes; Operating rooms; Queuing theory; Surgical scheduling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROBABILITY;

HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT TRANSFER; TRIAGE;

EID: 77953878521     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-010-9127-6     Document Type: Article

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