Development of simulation optimization methods for solving patient referral problems in the hospital-collaboration environment.

This research studied a patient referral problem among multiple cooperative hospitals for sharing imaging services' referrals. The proposed problem consisted of many types of patients and the uncertainty associated with the number of patients of each type, patients' arrival time, and patients' medic...

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Published in:Journal of Biomedical Informatics Vol. 73; pp. 148 - 159
Main Authors: Chen, Ping-Shun, Lin, Ming-Han
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Academic Press Inc. Sep2017
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