Hospital emergency departments in the US are facing increasing challenges due to growth in patient demand for their services, and inability to increase capacity to match demand. W...
Deborah J. Medeiros, Eric Swenson, Christopher DeF...
Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding is a common medical care issue in the United States and other developed nations. One major cause of ED crowding are holding patients waiting...
Erik Michael Wilhelm Kolb, Jordan Peck, Sebastian ...
An entire emergency department of a general hospital is simulated to examine patient flows. First, times needed for both outpatients and patients arriving via ambulance to be proc...
This study proposes a nurse allocation policy to manage patient overflow during a pandemic influenza outbreak. The objective is to minimize the number of patients waiting in queue...
Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital (Tucson, Arizona), the Ascension Health Operations Resource Group and FDI Simulation team worked collaboratively to improve hospital flow and incr...
David M. Ferrin, Marty J. Miller, Diana L. McBroom