In recent decades, health care costs have dramatically increased, while health care
organisations have been under severe pressure to provide improved quality health care for …

The problem of emergency department (ED) overcrowding has reached crisis proportions in
the last decade. In 2005, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine …

Over the past 40 years, health care organizations have faced ever-increasing pressures to
deliver quality care while facing rising costs, lower reimbursements, and new regulatory …

This paper introduces the problem of scheduling emergency room physicians. We
interviewed physicians from six hospitals in the greater Montreal, Canada area, in order to …

The system of health care can be evaluated from four perspectives: macro, regional, center,
and department. In each case, reduction of patient delay depends on improving interfaces …

We report on the use of discrete-event simulation modeling to support process
improvements in a hospital emergency department (ED), namely the implementation of a …

In recent years, hospitals have been vigorously searching for ways to reduce costs and
improve productivity. One tool, simulation, is now widely accepted as an effective method to …

This paper describes the results of a study taken at an outpatient clinic to describe and
quantify issues related to patient flow and resource utilization for an individual physician …

A conceptual framework for hybrid system dynamics and discrete event simulation for
healthcare | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access …

In this survey we review quantitative health care models to illustrate the extent to which they
encompass multiple hospital departments. The paper provides general overviews of the …