Reserving capacity for urgent patients in primary care

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 456-473

  Dobson, Gregory ^a   Hasija, Sameer ^b   Pinker, Edieal J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (Singapore)

Author keywords

advanced access; appointment scheduling; primary care; urgent patients

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956111850     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01227.x     Document Type: Article

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