Patient Flow Scheduling and Capacity Planning in a Smart Hospital Environment

IEEE Access

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 135-148

  Chen, Xiao ^a   Wang, Liangmin ^a   Ding, Jie ^b   Thomas, Nigel ^c  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Patient Flow; PEPA; Scheduling; Smart Environment

Indexed keywords

FORMAL METHODS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; SCHEDULING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

FLUID FLOW APPROXIMATION; HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; PATIENT FLOW; PEPA; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROCESS ALGEBRA; SMART ENVIRONMENT; SMART HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS; UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 84979797012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2015.2509013     Document Type: Article

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