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WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Hospital emergency departments in the US are facing increasing challenges due to growth in patient demand for their services, and inability to increase capacity to match demand. W...
WSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding is a common medical care issue in the United States and other developed nations. One major cause of ED crowding are holding patients waiting...
WSC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
An entire emergency department of a general hospital is simulated to examine patient flows. First, times needed for both outpatients and patients arriving via ambulance to be proc...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
This study proposes a nurse allocation policy to manage patient overflow during a pandemic influenza outbreak. The objective is to minimize the number of patients waiting in queue...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital (Tucson, Arizona), the Ascension Health Operations Resource Group and FDI Simulation team worked collaboratively to improve hospital flow and incr...