Dynamic resource allocation to improve emergency department efficiency in real time

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2016.05.039MaRDI QIDQ323566zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruth Luscombe, Erhan Kozan

Publication date 7 October 2016

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.05.039

zbMATH Keywords

emergency departmentmeta-heuristicsOR in health servicesreal-timescheduling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90)

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