Improving the emergency department performance using simulation and MCDM methods

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1211-1222

  Eskandari, Hamidreza ^a   Riyahifard, Mohammadali ^a   Khosravi, Shahrzad ^b   Geiger, Christopher D ^c  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Information Resource Management Department   (Iran)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE WAITING-TIME; DECISION MODELS; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; FLOW PROCESS; GROUP-AHP; PATIENT FLOW; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SIMULATION MODEL; TEHRAN , IRAN; WAITING TIME;

EMERGENCY ROOMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84858067053     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2011.6147843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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