Bed allocation to reduce overflow

• Main Authors: Xie, J., CHOU, M.C., ANG, Marcus, Yao, D.D.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: bed allocation; patient overflow; M/M/c; optimization; discrete event simulation; Business
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4480
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Hospital emergency department boarding time, i.e. the duration between the patient bed request time and the patient admission time to inpatient wards, is a key performance in many hospitals. In order to avoid this waiting time to exceed certain level, some hospitals including the one under study in...