Dimensioning hospital wards using the Erlang loss model

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-43

  de Bruin, A M ^a,b   Bekker, R ^b   van Zanten, L ^a   Koole, G M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bed occupancy; Bed pooling; Clinical ward management; Erlang loss model; Queuing models; Refused admissions; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954034383     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0647-8     Document Type: Article

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