Emergency department over-crowding has been a growing problem throughout the world.This paper presents a practical approach to estimate the waiting times for multi-class patients and apply the approach to reduce the w...
This paper was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(71021061,61273204).
Appointment systems are used by health clinics to manage access to service providers.In such systems,a specified number of patients are scheduled in advance,but certain patients may not arrive or‘show up’to their ap...