Facets of operational performance in an emergency room (ER)

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-211

  Van Der Vaart, Taco ^a   Vastag, Gyula ^b   Wijngaard, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Capacity and lead time analysis; Emergency care; Exploratory data analysis; Services; Work in process inventories

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY CARE; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; LEADTIME; SERVICES; WORK-IN-PROCESS INVENTORY;

DATA REDUCTION; EMERGENCY ROOMS; LOAD TESTING;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 79958236544     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.04.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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