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| Author: | Kim, S-C. Horowitz, I. |
| Title: | Scheduling hospital services: the efficacy of elective-surgery quotas |
| Journal: | Omega
2002 : OCT, VOL. 30:5, p. 335-346 |
| Index terms: | Efficiency Hospital management Queuing theory Scheduling Simulation |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The authors take advantage of the advance-scheduling property for elective surgeries by exploring whether the use of a daily quota system with a 1-week or 2-week scheduling window would improve the performance of a typical intensive care unit (ICU) that serves patients coming from a number of different sources within the hospital. The exploration is carried out via a simulation model whose parameters are established from actual ICU data that were gathered over a 6-month period. |
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