Improving response-time performance in acute care delivery: A systems approach

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1240-1249

  Xie, Xiaolei ^a   Li, Jingshan ^a   Swartz, Colleen H ^b   DePriest, Paul ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Baptist Memorial Healthcare Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute care; Bottleneck; Non exponential response time; Patient safety; Rapid response; Response time performance

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CARES; BOTTLENECK; PATIENT SAFETY; RAPID RESPONSE; RESPONSE-TIME PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84908692127     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2013.2258913     Document Type: Article

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