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A combination of deterministic and stochastic approaches to optimize bed capacity in a hospital unit

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In this study a new stochastic approximation is developed and applied to a unit of a teaching hospital and based on target levels of the control parameters, a profit and loss analysis is performed.
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This article is published in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.The article was published on 2008-04-01. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bed Occupancy & Stochastic approximation.

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Taxonomic classification of planning decisions in health care: a structured review of the state of the art in OR/MS

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from the field of Operations Research and Management Sciences (OR/MS) for each planning decision.
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Operations Research in Healthcare: a survey

TL;DR: This paper surveys several applications of Operations Research in the domain of Healthcare and highlights current research activities, focusing on a variety of optimisation problems as well as solution techniques used for solving the Optimisation problems.

A Survey of Health Care Models that Encompass Multiple Departments

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of quantitative health care models to illustrate the extent to which they encompass multiple hospital departments is presented, and the authors provide general overviews of the relationships that exist between major hospital departments and describes how these relationships are accounted for by researchers.
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Operations research/management contributions to emergency department patient flow optimization: Review and research prospects

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of OR/OM on improving the performance of hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) has been discussed, including improving a wide range of processes involving patient flow from the initial call to the ED through disposition, discharge home, or admission to the hospital.
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Operations Research/Management Contributions to Emergency Department Patient Flow Optimization: Review and Research Prospects

TL;DR: This work reviews approximately 350 related papers to demonstrate the influence of OR/OM in EDs, and assist both researchers and practitioners with the Or/OM techniques already available to optimize ED patient flow.
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Simulation Modeling and Analysis

TL;DR: The text is designed for a one-term or two-quarter course in simulation offered in departments of industrial engineering, business, computer science and operations research.
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Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a simple linear regression model with variable selection and multicollinearity for robust regression, and validate the model using regression analysis and validation of regression models.
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Discrete-Event System Simulation

TL;DR: Beleska o autorima: str. XV-XVI. as mentioned in this paper - Bibliografija uz svako poglavlje. - Registar.
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