Scheduling admissions and reducing variability in bed demand

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-249

  Bekker, René ^a   Koeleman, Paulien M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Admission scheduling; Capacity requirement; Heavy traffic approximation; Quadratic programming; Queueing theory; Variability in bed demand

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

BED OCCUPANCY; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT ADMISSION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80051894580     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-011-9163-x     Document Type: Article

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