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WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Merging six emergency departments into one: a simulation approach
Simulation of existing systems can reinforce a Subject Matter Expert’s gut feelings. However, it is more difficult to develop intuition for proposed systems, particularly when c...
Martin J. Miller, David M. Ferrin, Marshall Ashby,...
WSC
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Fixing the Emergency Department: A Transformational Journey with EDsim
Hospitals today are investing time and money to expand and improve their Emergency Departments (ED). Using simulation to test their many improvement ideas can necessitate running ...
Martin J. Miller, David M. Ferrin, Marcia Messer
EOR
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Managing the overflow of intensive care patients
Abstract. Many hospitals in the Netherlands are confronted with capacity problems at their Intensive Care Units (ICUs) resulting in cancelling operations, overloading the staff wit...
Nelly Litvak, Marleen van Rijsbergen, Richard J. B...
IHI
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Dynamic scheduling of emergency department resources
The processes carried out in a hospital emergency department can be thought of as structures of activities that require resources in order to execute. Costs are reduced when resou...
Junchao Xiao, Leon J. Osterweil, Qing Wang
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Proximity Based Access Control in Smart-Emergency Departments
In this paper, we propose a Proximity Based automated Access Control (PBAC) model for smart-ED environments which improves the existing ED work-flow by automating mundane administ...
Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Tridib Mukherjee, Krishna K. ...