Interacting Hospital Departments and Uncertain Patient Flows: Theoretical Models and Applications Reception to Follow Interacting Hospital Departments and Uncertain Patient Flows: Theoretical Models and Applications Dissertation Committee Interacting Hospital Departments and Uncertain Patient Flows: Theoretical Models and Applications

P.T. Vaerkel In this thesis we address a number of challenging problems related to health care logistics. These problems are motivated by hospital managers who collaborated in the research, and the results are applied at their hospitals. The general results are valid in other hospital settings and the solution approaches used to cope with system complexity and patient flow uncertainty are novel. Using and developing techniques from queueing theory, mathematical programming, and simulation, we demonstrate how complexity and uncertainty can be coped with by solving multiple strategic, tactical and operational problems faced by our partner hospitals. Interacting Hospital Departments and Uncertain Patient Flows: Theoretical Models and Applications