Scheduling appointments in outpatient clinics

Health Operations Management: Patient Flow Logistics in Health Care

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 223-247

  Worthington, Dave ^a   Goulsbra, Richard ^b   Rankin, James ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department for Work and Pensions ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appointment systems for outpatients clinics; Approaches for clinic waiting times: bottleneck analysis, simulation and queue modelling; Waiting time in clinics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906134956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203356791     Document Type: Chapter

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