Improving patient flow in emergency department through dynamic priority queue

Most queuing problems are based on FIFO, LIFO, or static priority queues; very few address dynamic priority queues. In this paper, we present a case in a hospital’s emergency department (ED) where the queuing process can be modeled as a time-varying M/M/s queue with re-entrant patients. In order to...

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Main Authors: TAN, Kar Way, WANG, Chao, LAU, Hoong Chuin
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3317
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4319/viewcontent/ImprovingPatientFlowEmergencyDepartment_2012_CASE.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
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