An outpatient segmentation model: estimation of stakeholder costs.
This research describes a constraint-based heuristic model of capacity segmentation for outpatient facilities used to estimate the effect of segmentation constraints on stakeholders. Growth of free-standing ambulatory surgery centres has been dramatic in recent years with institutions being urged by...
| Publicado en: | Clinical & Investigative Medicine Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 364 - 368 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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University of Toronto Press
Dec2005
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