Developing nonlinear queuing regressions to increase emergency department patient safety: Approximating reneging with balking

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 378-386

  Cochran, Jeffery K ^a   Broyles, James R ^b  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balking; Emergency departments; Nonlinear regression; Queuing; Reneging

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTION MEASURE; DATA POINTS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; GAUSS-NEWTON; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; LEAD TIME; M/M/1/K QUEUE; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; PATIENT SAFETY; REGRESSION RELATIONSHIP; RESIDUAL ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZES; STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING; STRATEGIC TOOL; WEIGHTED REGRESSION;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY ROOMS; PROBABILITY; QUEUEING THEORY; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955466365     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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