Modeling and analysis of care delivery services within patient rooms

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 537-542

  Wang, Junwen ^a   Li, Jingshan ^a   Howard, Patricia K ^b  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

care delivery services; Length of stay; Markov chain; patient flow; patient room

Indexed keywords

DELIVERY SERVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MARKOV CHAIN; PATIENT FLOW; PATIENT ROOM;

HEALTH CARE; NUMERICAL METHODS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 82455171812     PISSN: 21618070     EISSN: 21618089     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CASE.2011.6042470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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