Improving patient flow in a hospital through dynamic allocation of cardiac diagnostic testing time slots

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 463-473

  Day, Robert W ^a   Dean, Matthew D ^b   Garfinkel, Robert ^c   Thompson, Steven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Mathematical modeling; Network flow; Patient flow

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORTS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTING; DISCRETE-TIME MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; DYNAMIC ALLOCATIONS; DYNAMIC NETWORK; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NETWORK FLOWS; ONLINE DECISION-MAKING; OPERATIONAL PRACTICES; PATIENT FLOW; PHASE TESTS; REAL TIME SCHEDULING; STATE SPACE; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 78049428465     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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