Emergency medicine: An operations management view

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1262-1268

  Soremekun, Olan A ^a   Terwiesch, Christian ^a   Pines, Jesse M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROWDING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MANAGER; OPERATION MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CROWDING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; WORKFLOW;

EID: 83655203258     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01226.x     Document Type: Review

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