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A queueing model to evaluate the impact of patient 'batching' on throughput and flow time in a medical teaching facility
Dobson, Gregory; Lee, Hsiao-hui; Sainathan, Arvind; … - 2012
We consider the work flow in a medical teaching facility, examining the process that involves an initial patient exam by a resident physician, a subsequent conference between the resident and the attending physician, and the attending physician’s visit with the patient. We create an analytical...
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Comparing scheduling appointment rules performance in health care units : a discrete event simulation approach
Klojda, Thiago Nunes; Fortuna, Antônio Pedro de Britto … - In: Problems of management in the 21st century 16 (2021) 1, pp. 28-41
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Data-driven percentile optimization for multi-class queueing systems with model ambiguity : theory and application
Bren, Austin; Saghafian, Soroush - 2018
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Credible ecological inference for medical decisions with personalized risk assessment
Manski, Charles F. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 541-569
(y|x=k, w=j). It is common to have a trustworthy evidence‐based risk assessment that predicts y conditional on a subset of the … conditional on covariates that are not utilized in evidence‐based risk assessments. I argue that formalizing clinical judgment … through analysis of the identification problem can improve risk assessments and care decisions. …
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Waiting times and cost sharing for a public health care service with a private alternative : a multi-agent approach
Rebba, Vincenzo; Rizzi, Dino - 2011 - First draft
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Pricing and waiting time decisions in a health care market with private and public provision
Alves, Vasco F. - In: Journal of applied economics 22 (2019) 1, pp. 174-195
This paper describes a duopoly market for healthcare where one of the two providers is publicly owned and charges a price of zero, while the other sets a price so as to maximize its profit. Both providers are subject to congestion in the form of an M/M/1 queue, and they serve patient-consumers...
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Explaining the gender gap in waiting times for scheduled surgery in the Portuguese National Health Service
Cima, Joana; Guimarães, Paulo; Almeida, Alvaro Santos - 2018
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Public health care with waiting time : the role of supplementary private health care
Hoel, Michael; Sæther, Erik Magnus - 2001
We consider an economy where most of the health care is publicly provided,and where there is waiting time for several types of treatments. Privatehealth care without waiting time is an option for the patients in the publichealth queue. We show that although patients with low waiting costs...
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Waiting time targets in healthcare markets : how long are we waiting?
Dixon, Huw; Siciliani, Luigi - 2009
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Understanding the effects of waiting time targets using modelling and simulation
Gunal, M. (contributor); Pidd, Mike (contributor) - 2009
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