Study on the distribution of patient appointment capacity based on the queuing theory

zbMATH Open1389.90090MaRDI QIDQ3132591FDOQ3132591

Authors: Yumei Hou, Tao Wu, Lichun Zhu, Qiuye Gao, Jinxia Li, Khan Imran 

Publication date: 29 January 2018

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zbMATH Keywords

non-preemptive priorityexponential service timeappointment capacitytwo types of patients' visiting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Sensitivity, stability, parametric optimization (90C31) Stochastic scheduling theory in operations research (90B36)

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