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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Summary: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 optimization model called separated continuous linear programming (SCLP). By using the efficient algorithm for SCLP, we can get the ED staffing level which minimizes the total cost of the patients and the ED.
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ISSN:1024-123X
1563-5147
DOI:10.1155/2013/680152