A Queueing Theoretic Approach to Gridlock Prediction in Emergency Departments
When an emergency department (ED) decides that it is not going to be able to serve any more newly arriving patients, it declares "diversion". When an ED is on diversion, it suspends arrivals that can be controlled by forcing some or all of the incoming emergency medical system (EMS) trans...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34556 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08152005-142930/ |