An integrated nurse staffing and scheduling analysis for longer-term nursing staff allocation problems

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 485-499

  Maenhout, Broos ^a   Vanhoucke, Mario ^a,b,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospitals; Manpower planning; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866994173     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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