Queueing Models for Patient-Flow Dynamics in Inpatient Wards
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DOI: 10.1287/opre.2019.1845
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patient flow; discharge delays; multiserver queue with blocking; deterministic fluid approximations; long-run periodicity;All these keywords.
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