Nurse staffing in medical units: A queueing perspective

Operations Research

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1320-1331

  De Véricourt, Francis ^a   Jennings, Otis B ^b  

^a INSEAD   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Many server limit theorems; Nursing; Public policy; Queueing system; Staffing

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DELAY-DEPENDENT; DISTRIBUTED SERVICE; LIMIT THEOREM; MEDICAL UNITS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; QUEUEING MODEL; QUEUEING SYSTEM; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SERVICE TIME; STAFFING; TIME THRESHOLDS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PUBLIC POLICY; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY;

NURSING;

EID: 84855332564     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1110.0968     Document Type: Article

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