Allocating Emergency Beds Improves the Emergency Admission Flow
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Provision of emergency beds in hospitals.
A number of beds are reserved each day in most hospitals to accommodate emergency cases arriving during the day. Since the number of emergency cases fluctuates considerably from day to day, it is not immediately obvious how many beds should be set aside for this purpose. If all the beds so reserved are filled during the day, any further emergency cases must either be accommodated in extra beds ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Interfaces
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0092-2102,1526-551X
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2018.0951