Vijayakumar, Bharathwaj; Parikh, Pratik J.; Scott, Rosalyn - In: European Journal of Operational Research 224 (2013) 3, pp. 583-591
Publicly-funded hospitals are typically allocated an annual budget by the government based on the number of enrollees in the region. Given tight budget constraints, the capacity of resources is fairly fixed. Such hospitals strive to maximize the utilization of their resources through continuous...