Capacity Management in Health Care Services: Review and Future Research Directions

Decision Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 889-919

  Smith‐Daniels, Vicki L ^a   Schweikhart, Sharon B ^b   Smith‐Daniels, Dwight E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

!Health Care Administration; Service Operations Management.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985773783     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1988.tb00310.x     Document Type: Article

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