Improving operating theatre design using facilities layout planning

2012 Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference, CIBEC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 109-113

  Assem, Mohammed ^a   Ouda, Bassem K ^a   Wahed, Manal Abdel ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Facility Layout Problem; layout planning REL Chart; operating theatre; spiral technique

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE DESIGNS; FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEMS; GRAPH THEORETIC APPROACH; HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; LAYOUT PLANNING; OPERATING THEATRE; SPIRAL TECHNIQUE;

DESIGN; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GRAPH THEORY; HEALTH CARE; HEURISTIC METHODS; HOSPITALS; THEATERS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84875632017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIBEC.2012.6473314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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