Emergency Department Staffing: A Separated Continuous Linear Programming Approach

The emergency department (ED) overcrowding is becoming serious in recent years. The shortage of ED staff is considered to be a common factor to contribute to the ED overcrowding. In this paper, we present a new model to address the ED staffing from a macroscopic perspective. The model is a kind of o...

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Published in:	Mathematical problems in engineering Vol. 2013; no. 2013; pp. 1 - 8
Main Author:	Wang, Xiaoqing
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects:	Algorithms Cost engineering Emergencies Emergency medical care Emergency medical services Emergency services Linear programming Mathematical models Optimization Patients Physicians Queuing theory Shortages
ISSN:	1024-123X, 1563-5147
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