Simulation based analysis of patient arrival to health care systems and evaluation of an operations improvement scheme

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 263-279

  Williams, Peter ^a   Tai, Guangfu ^a   Lei, Yiming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Health care systems; Operations improvement; Performance measures; Product line

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954028775     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0580-x     Document Type: Article

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