Improving the efficiency of a hospital emergency department: a simulation study with indirectly imputed service-time distributions

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 120-147

  Kuo, Yong Hong ^a   Rado, Omar ^b   Lupia, Benedetta ^c   Leung, Janny M Y ^a   Graham, Colin A ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Mergers and Acquisitions Group   (Italy)

^c Luxottica Group Spa   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health care management; Meta heuristics; Parameter estimation; Patient flows; Simulated annealing; Simulation; Simulation optimization

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY ROOMS; HOSPITALS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

HEALTH-CARE MANAGEMENTS; META HEURISTICS; PATIENT FLOW; SIMULATION; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84957728011     PISSN: 19366582     EISSN: 19366590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10696-014-9198-7     Document Type: Article

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