A stochastic model for a visit to the doctor's office

DOI10.1016/J.MCM.2006.03.022MaRDI QIDQ1025673zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Murray J. Côté, William Stein

Publication date 23 June 2009

Published in Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2006.03.022

zbMATH Keywords

health care systemsMarkov and semi-Markov modelspatient flowstochastic processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov renewal processes, semi-Markov processes (60K15) Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20) Queues and service in operations research (90B22)

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