Background It has been discussed whether emergency departments (EDs) reduce hospital admissions or not, and if the high turnover of patients results in higher readmission rates. Region Zealand was one of the first regions in Denmark to establish EDs, where all the acute patients for the hospital should be received: Køge and Holbæk (no beds, doctors employed by and working only in the ED), Nykøb...

Gabriel Taubin has graciously invited me to write this issue’s From the Editor column, giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on what CG&A’s departments are, how they’re run, and why we hope you benefi t from them. In 2002, Jim Thomas, CG&A’s editor in chief at the time, asked me to serve as the associate editor in chief for departments. At the time, I wondered what I was getting myself...

University course timetabling problem is one of the hard problems and it must be done for each term frequently which is an exhausting and time consuming task. The main technique in the presented approach is focused on developing and making the process of timetabling common lecturers among different departments of a university scalable. The aim of this paper is to improve the satisfaction of com...