A model of ICU bumping

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1564-1576

  Dobson, Gregory ^a   Lee, Hsiao Hui ^b   Pinker, Edieal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; ARRIVAL PATTERNS; DISAGGREGATION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSS-SEIDEL ITERATIVE METHOD; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MARKOV CHAIN; MARKOV CHAIN MODELS; QUALITY OF CARE;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; MARKOV PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EID: 78651415510     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1100.0861     Document Type: Article

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