Management Science · 1970 · 93 citations · 15 references
BusinessDecision SciencesHealth Care ManagementMarkov Decision ProcessesQueuing TheorySchedulingHospital Operations ManagementMarkov ModelingMarkovian Queueing ModelsQueueing ProcessesQueueing SystemsQueueing TheoryHospital Queueing ModelsMarkov Decision Process SchedulingPatient Arrival ProcessesPatient Queueing Models
Several queuing models suggested for modelling hospital admissions scheduling are reviewed and a Markovian decision model is presented. The resulting linear program could be solved to obtain results listed on a decision table as a guide to administrative action.
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Queues, Inventories and Maintenance.
F. G. Foster, PAIGE MORSE · Economica · 1960 · 386 citations
On Sequential Decisions and Markov Chains
Cyrus Derman · Management Science · 1962 · 258 citations