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| Author: | Bretthauer, K. M. Côté, M. J. |
| Title: | A model for planning resource requirements in health care organizations |
| Journal: | Decision Sciences
1998 : WINTER, VOL. 29:1, p. 243-270 |
| Index terms: | HEALTH SERVICE CAPACITY PLANNING MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING QUEUING THEORY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study presents a general model and solution methodology for planning resource requirements in health care organizations. To determine resource requirements, an optimization/queuing network is developed. It minimizes capacity costs while controlling customer service by enforcing a set of performance constraints such as setting an upper limit on the expected time a patient spends in the system. The queuing network model allows to capture the stochastic behavior of health care system and to measure customer srvice levels within the optimization framework. |
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