Application of Queuing Analytic Theory to Decrease Waiting Times in Emergency Department: A Review

application of queuing analytic theory to decrease waiting times in emergency department: a review

Application of Queuing Analytic Theory to Decrease Waiting Times in Emergency Department: a review

Please cite this paper as: Thomas RE. Application of queuing analytic theory to decrease waiting times in emergency department: a review Arch Trauma This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the origina...

queuing theory to decrease waiting times in emergency department

Application of Queuing Analytic Theory to Decrease Waiting Times in Emergency Department: Does it Make Sense?

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: This is a letter on the manuscript by Mostafa Alavi-Moghaddam et al. on " Application of Queuing Analytic Theory to Decrease Waiting Times in Emergency Department: Does it Make Sense? " published in the Archives of Trauma Research in 2012. Dear Editor, We read with great interest the recent manuscript by Mostafa Alavi-Moghaddam ...

Application of Queuing Analytic Theory to Decrease Waiting Times in Emergency Department: Does it Make Sense?

BACKGROUND Patients who receive care in an emergency department (ED), are usually unattended while waiting in queues. OBJECTIVES This study was done to determine, whether the application of queuing theory analysis might shorten the waiting times of patients admitted to emergency wards. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was an operational study to use queuing theory analysis in the ED. In the first ...