Article ID: | iaor20012812 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 347 |
End Page Number: | 359 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2000 |
Journal: | OMEGA |
Authors: | Stein William E., Ct Murray J. |
Keywords: | queues: applications |
In this paper, an Erlang-based stochastic model for patient flow is presented. The model is proposed as an effective tool to obtain analytic results for the stochastic process of patient flow in a health care environment. Through the use of two previously published examples, it is shown that the stochastic model can be developed quickly, is not computationally intensive and provides a good representation of the empirical patient flow.