Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7543694 | Operations Research for Health Care | 2015 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
Two purposes of Short Stay Units (SSU) are the reduction of Emergency Department crowding and increased urgent patient admissions. At an SSU urgent patients are temporarily held until they either can go home or transferred to an inpatient ward. In this paper we present an overflow model to evaluate the effect of employing an SSU on elective and urgent patient admissions.
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Authors
Maartje E. Zonderland, Richard J. Boucherie, Michael W. Carter, David A. Stanford,