Reducing search times and entropy in hospital emergency departments with real-time location systems
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Although the consequences of hospital ED crowding have been studied extensively, causes are still not well understood. Throughput factors in models difficult to stud...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IISE transactions on healthcare systems engineering
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2472-5587', '2472-5579']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/24725579.2021.1881660