[HTML][HTML] Using queuing theory and simulation model to optimize hospital pharmacy performance

M Bahadori, SM Mohammadnejhad… - Iranian red crescent …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Hospital pharmacy is responsible for controlling and monitoring the medication
use process and ensures the timely access to safe, effective and economical use of drugs …

[PDF][PDF] A study of waiting and service costs of a multi-server queuing model in a specialist hospital

MM Kembe, ES Onah, S Iorkegh - International journal of scientific & …, 2012 - Citeseer
The effect of queuing in relation to the time spent by patients to access clinical services is
increasingly becoming a major source of concern to most health–care providers. This is …

[PDF][PDF] Application of queuing theory model and simulation to patient flow at the outpatient department

AHN Aziati, NSB Hamdan - Proceedings of the international …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Long waiting time to be served at the outpatient counter is always the main problem faced by
the public clinic. Outpatient department at public health clinic had the greatest queuing …

Application of queuing theory to patient satisfaction at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria

N Ameh, B Sabo, MO Oyefabi - Nigerian Medical Journal, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Background: Queuing theory is the mathematical approach to the analysis of waiting lines in
any setting where arrival rate of subjects is faster than the system can handle. It is applicable …

[HTML][HTML] Outpatient waiting time in health services and teaching hospitals: a case study in Iran

R Mohebbifar, E Hasanpoor, M Mohseni… - Global journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: One of the most important indexes of the health care quality is patient's
satisfaction and it takes place only when there is a process based on management. One of …

[HTML][HTML] Using queuing theory and simulation modelling to reduce waiting times in an Iranian emergency department

HA Haghighinejad, E Kharazmi, N Hatam… - … journal of community …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Hospital emergencies have an essential role in health care systems. In the last
decade, developed countries have paid great attention to overcrowding crisis in emergency …

A queuing model for health care pharmacy using software Arena

MH Alhaag, T Aziz, IM Alharkan - 2015 international conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on improving and build a discrete event simulation model for modeling
outpatient pharmacy workflow queuing system with the intent of exploring options for …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing outpatient waiting time: a simulation modeling approach

A Aeenparast, SJ Tabibi, K Shahanaghi… - Iranian Red Crescent …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives The objective of this study was to provide a model for reducing outpatient waiting
time by using simulation. Materials and Methods A simulation model was constructed by …

[PDF][PDF] Outpatient queuing model development for hospital appointment system

R Obulor, BO Eke - … Journal of Scientific Engineering and Applied …, 2016 - academia.edu
In many hospitals, Patients wait for long time in the healthcare facility before they are
attended to by the health personnel. This trend is on the increase and it is a potential threat …

Queuing theory and customer satisfaction: a Review of terminology, trends, and applications to pharmacy practice

RA Nosek Jr, JP Wilson - Hospital pharmacy, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Queuing theory is the formal study of waiting in line and is an entire discipline in operations
management. This article will give the reader a general background into queuing theory, its …