INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND - Volume 4, Issue 2 , June 2015

Pages: 49-58

Date of Publication: 01-Jun-2015

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BED ALLOCATION IN HOSPITALS – A CASE STUDY

Author: Vemula Susheela Triveni*

Category: Engineering, Science and Mathematics

Abstract:

Due to increase of patient inflows and types of medical services demanded over a time period, the hospital administration is faced with the problem of assigning bed for various medical services in a hospital. The objective of this study is to allocate the number of beds in hospital wards compatible with the service level desired by the hospital administration.

Keywords: Queuing model, health care, queue discipline, arrivals, services.