Optimizing Inter-Hospital Patient Transfer Decisions During a Pandemic: A Queueing Network Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Chan ◽  
Frances Pogacar ◽  
Vahid Sarhangian ◽  
Erik Hellsten ◽  
Fahad Razak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Queueing Network ◽  
Patient Transfer ◽  
Hospital Patient ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Transfer Decisions

scholarly journals Inter-hospital and intra-hospital patient transfer: Recent concepts

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish Kulshrestha ◽  
Jasveer Singh
Keyword(s):  
Patient Transfer ◽  
Hospital Patient

Modeling and Simulation Analyses of Healthcare Delivery Operations for Inter-Hospital Patient Transfers

2017 ◽  
pp. 241-260
Author(s):  
Chialin Chen ◽  
Samson X. Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Patient Transfer ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Hospital Patient ◽  
Patient Transfers ◽  
Fleet Sizing ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Hospital Transfer ◽  
Transfer Services

Inter-hospital transfers of patients for different elements of care have been increasingly used as a common strategy for providing quality healthcares through sharing limited resources worldwide. In this paper, the authors study the problem of healthcare delivery operations for inter-hospital patient transfers motivated by a real-world case within the South East Local Health Integration Network of Ontario. The authors use a directed graph to develop a general model for obtaining the solution that minimizes the overall transportation time while satisfying all the inter-hospital transfer requests with identical or different start and end points. The authors also perform simulation analyses to study the fleet sizing problem through evaluating different service performances with different fleet sizes. A number of implementation issues for managing inter-hospital patient transfer services are also discussed.

A queueing network model of task prioritization using a general hierarchy of prioritization rules

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 807-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoxi Zhang ◽  
Robert Feyen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Computational Model ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Validation Study ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Concurrent Tasks ◽  
Multiple Task ◽  
Task Sequences

Earlier, Zhang and Feyen (2005) proposed a qualitative framework for predicting how people working in a multitasking scenario switch between concurrent tasks with dynamically changing priorities. This paper describes a validation study of a computational model derived from this framework. Utilizing a general hierarchy of prioritization rules suggested by a companion empirical study, a model of a multiple task scenario built using a queueing network approach was compared to the empirical results. On all metrics considered, no means were found significantly different and the model replicated all but one of 54 task sequences demonstrated by human subjects. Comparisons to similar models utilizing only single prioritization rules revealed that the general hierarchy yielded substantially better predictions.

scholarly journals Optimal Allocation of Cashiers and Pharmacists in Large Hospitals: A Point-Wise Fluid-Based Dynamic Queueing Network Approach

IEEE Access ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 2859-2870
Author(s):  
Chung-Cheng Lu ◽  
Shih-Wei Lin ◽  
Hui-Ju Chen ◽  
Kuo-Ching Ying
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Network Approach

A queueing network approach for appointment scheduling of blood donors

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 303-308
Author(s):  
Edgar ALFONSO ◽  
Xiaolan XIE ◽  
Vincent AUGUSTO
Keyword(s):  
Blood Donors ◽  
Queueing Network ◽  
Appointment Scheduling ◽  
Network Approach
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