Mathematical model of hospital length of stay

• 主要作者: Le, Truc Viet.
• 其他作者: Kwoh Chee Keong
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2009
• 主題: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications::Life and medical sciences
• 在線閱讀: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16831

Hospital length of stay (LOS) is often used as a reliable proxy for measuring the consumption of hospital resources. However, the empirical distribution of LOS is established to be highly skewed with a heavy right tail. This makes the applications of simple statistics, such as averaging, to LOS for...