This document presents a comprehensive empirical study on the inpatient flow management in a Singaporean hospital. The empirical study uses high resolution patient flow data from 2008 to 2010. This document details the statistics of waiting times for patients admitted from the emergence...

We analyze a time-varying Mperi/Geo2timeScale/N queueing system. The arrival process is periodic Poisson. The service time of a customer has components in different time scales: length of stay (LOS) in days and departure time (hdis) in hours. This queueing system has been used to study patient...

Purpose Doctors' labour and medicines are special necessities for human survival and evolution. Since China launched the healthcare reform, the theoretical circles' discussions have not yet clarified the respective special properties of doctors' labour and medicines as goods and the internal...