The proper allocation of limited hospital bed resources is a complex problem caused by
uncertainties in patient length of stay, fluctuations in demands, unexpected admission …

Problems related to patient scheduling and queueing in emergency departments are
gaining increasing attention in theory, in the fields of operations research and emergency …

Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) problems are often encountered in complex system
design. Most of them need to be evaluated with a large number of interactive and qualitative …

Recently, there is of significant interest in developing multi-criteria decision making (MCDM)
techniques with large applications for real-life problems. Making a reasonable and accurate …

Hospital is an organization that primarily provides services in the form of examination,
treatment, medical treatment and other diagnostic measures required by each patient in the …

Bed management is an important area of planning and control for hospitals, as it has the
important role of maintaining the balance between patients from the emergency department …

This paper reviews current literature on the bed management role seeking to highlight
developments most likely to increase efficiency. A reduction in the number of in-patient beds …

This paper investigates hospital bed planning problem in a single department, proposing a
method combining Monte Carlo simulation and queuing theory to determine bed scale and …

Objective This study aimed to determine whether a search index could provide insight into
trends in asthma admission in China. An Internet search index is a powerful tool to monitor …

In health-care decision-making, the predominance of some value function multi-criteria
decision analysis (MCDA) methods may obscure the existence and potential usefulness of …