We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Abstract Analysis of hospital processes is essential for development of improved methods,
policies and decision tools for overall performance improvement of the hospital system …

This paper reviews the contributions and applications of queueing theory in the field of
health care management problems. This review proposes a system of classification of health …

One key factor contributing to emergency department (ED) overcrowding is prolonged
waiting time for admission to inpatient wards, also known as ED boarding time. To gain …

In recent years, Operations Research/Management (OR/OM) has had a significant impact on
improving the performance of hospital Emergency Departments (EDs). This includes …

This paper surveys the contributions and applications of queuing theory in the field of
healthcare. The paper summarizes a range of queuing theory results in the following areas …

This paper derives an open queuing network model of an emergency department (ED)
design intended to increase the capacity of an ED to treat patients. The methodology …

How many beds must be allocated to a specific clinical ward to meet production targets?
When budgets get tight, what are the effects of downsizing a nursing unit? These questions …

Health care is one of the largest industries in the developed world and the top domestic
industry in the United States (US). Over the past thirty years there has been a dramatic …

Analytic queueing network models often assume infinite capacity queues due to the difficulty
of grasping the between-queue correlation. This correlation can help to explain the …