emergency department patient flow optimization : Review and research prospects
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Operations research/management contributions to emergency department patient flow optimization: Review and research prospects Soroush Saghafian, Garrett Austin & Stephen J. Traub a Industrial Engineering, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85281, USA b Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, USA Published online: 09 Jun 2015.
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