The healthcare industry is one application for data envelopment analysis (DEA) that can
have significant benefits for standardizing health service delivery. This narrative review …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Since high performance is essential to the functioning of emergency departments (EDs),
they must constantly pursue sensible and empirically testable improvements. In light of …

An emergency department (ED) has been considered as one of the most congested
department in a hospital. The congestion is typically contributed by long waiting time to get …

The improvement of emergency department processes involves the need to take into
consideration multiple variables and objectives in a highly dynamic and unpredictable …

Emergency department (ED) is the most crowded entity in hospitals, because it is the access
point of almost all patients looking for care without beforehand appointment. Accordingly …

Health care services in any country influence a considerable part of the economic, social,
and political systems; researchers are trying to improve the quality of health care to realize …

Mortality rate can be reduced considerably by implementation of triage in Emergency
Department (ED). The triage nurse is typically the first person a patient encounter when …

Timely access to health services has become increasingly difficult due to demographic
change and aging people growth. These create new heterogeneous challenges for society …

Background: Discrete event simulation has been widely used for decades to model the
Emergency Department (ED) patient flow, understand system bottlenecks, and analyse …