Review of modeling approaches for emergency department patient flow and crowding research

JL Wiler, RT Griffey, T Olsen - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2011; 18: 1371–1379© 2011 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Emergency department (ED) crowding is an …

An exhaustive review and analysis on applications of statistical forecasting in hospital emergency departments

M Gul, E Celik - Health Systems, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Emergency departments (EDs) provide medical treatment for a broad spectrum of illnesses
and injuries to patients who arrive at all hours of the day. The quality and efficient delivery of …

A discrete-event simulation model of hospital patient flow following major earthquakes

A Basaglia, E Spacone, JW van de Lindt… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Following a major disaster, hospitals must promptly rearrange their organization and
treatment procedures to deal with the sudden arrival of a high number of injured people to …

A multi-method patient arrival forecasting outline for hospital emergency departments

M Yucesan, M Gul, E Celik - International Journal of Healthcare …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Patient arrivals at the emergency department (ED) of hospitals has an unpredictable
behavior. So that, adequate forecasting of this process can serve a management baseline to …

Machine learning in patient flow: a review

R El-Bouri, T Taylor, A Youssef, T Zhu… - Progress in …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This work is a review of the ways in which machine learning has been used in order to plan,
improve or aid the problem of moving patients through healthcare services. We decompose …

The effects of temperature on accident and emergency department attendances in London: a time-series regression analysis

I Corcuera Hotz, S Hajat - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The epidemiological research relating mortality and hospital admissions to ambient
temperature is well established. However, less is known about the effect temperature has on …

Machine learning-based patient load prediction and IoT integrated intelligent patient transfer systems

K Mtonga, S Kumaran, C Mikeka, K Jayavel, J Nsenga - future internet, 2019 - mdpi.com
A mismatch between staffing ratios and service demand leads to overcrowding of patients in
waiting rooms of health centers. Overcrowding consequently leads to excessive patient …

A modeling framework that combines markov models and discrete-event simulation for stroke patient care

S McClean, M Barton, L Garg, K Fullerton - ACM Transactions on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Stroke disease places a heavy burden on society, incurring long periods of hospital and
community care. Also stroke is a highly complex disease with heterogeneous outcomes and …

Using phase-type models to cost stroke patient care across health, social and community services

S McClean, J Gillespie, L Garg, M Barton… - European Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Stroke disease places a heavy burden on society, incurring long periods of time in hospital
and community care, and associated costs. Also stroke is a highly complex disease with …

Emergency department visit forecasting and dynamic nursing staff allocation using machine learning techniques with readily available open-source software

A Zlotnik, A Gallardo-Antolin, MC Alfaro… - CIN: Computers …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Although emergency department visit forecasting can be of use for nurse staff planning,
previous research has focused on models that lacked sufficient resolution and realistic error …