Optimal booking and scheduling in outpatient procedure centers

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 24-37

  Berg, Bjorn P ^a   Denton, Brian T ^b   Ayca Erdogan, S ^c   Rohleder, Thomas ^d   Huschka, Todd ^d  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Daniel J Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

OR in health services; Scheduling; Simulation; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900445221     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2014.04.007     Document Type: Article

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