Application of the Queuing Analytic Theory in Emergency Department

application of the queuing analytic theory in emergency department

Application of the Queuing Analytic Theory in Emergency Department

I read with great interest the article by Alavi-Moghaddam et al. (1) in which the authors concluded that application of the queuing theory analysis can improve movement and reduce the waiting times of patients in bottlenecks within the emergency department (ED) in Iran. As an epidemiologist in Morocco, I divide the frustration of the authors that throughput of patients in the emergency departme...

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...

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 ...