Control of Patient Flow in Emergency Departments, or Multiclass Queues with Deadlines and Feedback

DOI10.1287/opre.2015.1389zbMath1329.90038OpenAlexW1933839856MaRDI QIDQ3465592

Junfei Huang, Boaz Carmeli, Avishai Mandelbaum

Publication date: 22 January 2016

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/5421ec941ada5fbbdfe82d127c7652416212f8e4

zbMATH Keywords

hospitalsfeedbackapproximationsheavy trafficqueueshealth careemergency departments\(c\mu\) rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Stochastic scheduling theory in operations research (90B36)

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