Forecasting Emergency Department Crowding: A Discrete Event Simulation
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Forecasting models of emergency department crowding.
OBJECTIVES The authors investigated whether models using time series methods can generate accurate short-term forecasts of emergency department (ED) bed occupancy, using traditional historical averages models as comparison. METHODS From July 2005 through June 2006, retrospective hourly ED bed occupancy values were collected from three tertiary care hospitals. Three models of ED bed occupancy ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0196-0644
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.12.011