Design and analysis of hospital admission control for operational effectiveness

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 359-374

  Helm, Jonathan E ^a   Ahmadbeygi, Shervin ^a   Van Oyen, Mark P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

admission control; health care operations; Markov decision processes; patient flow modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956111298     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01231.x     Document Type: Article

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