can attend an in-network hospital, but receive care from an out-of-network physician. Because patients do not choose their …

) researchers. Having timevarying arrivals and heterogeneous patients that need to be treated in consecutive processing steps by … (Jayaprakash et al., 2009) and may cause a myriad of operational problems like patients being treated in hallways, excessive length … of stay (LOS) and wait times, patients leaving without treatment or even medical errors and increased mortality …

for patients admitted from the emergence department (ED) to inpatient wards, bed occupancy rate of the inpatient wards …, and overflow proportions (proportions of patients that are admitted to a non-primary ward). The document also reports …