Designing patient flow in emergency departments
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Designing patient flow in emergency departments Yariv N. Marmor a , Boaz Golany b , Shlomo Israelit c & Avishai Mandelbaum b a Mayo Clinic, Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, USA b Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Haifa, 32000, Israel c Rambam Health Care Campus, Emergency Department, Haifa, 31096, Israel
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