| Article ID: | iaor1992271 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 42 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 357 |
| End Page Number: | 364 |
| Publication Date: | May 1991 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Liu Chih-Ming, Wang Kuo-Ming, Guh Yuh-Yuan |
| Keywords: | medicine |
This paper presents a Markov chain model for the analysis of a centralized medical record system in a large general hospital. The model is used to describe the dynamic behaviour of the age of records associated with patients’ visits to a hospital and provides a method for the long-term planning of the medical record storage facilities.