DGHPSIM: Generic simulation of hospital performance

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Günal, Murat M ^a   Pidd, Michael ^b  

^a Turkish Naval Academy   (Turkey)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management; Performance

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GENERIC SIMULATION; GENERIC STRUCTURE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; TRANSITION MATRICES; WAITING TIME;

MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TREATMENT; SIMULATORS;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 80053000573     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: 15581195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2000494.2000496     Document Type: Article

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