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Category Archives: OR concepts
MIT news: “flexibility in resources drastically improves wait times”
From MIT news (August 6, 2013)— From theory to practice “In work beginning with his master’s thesis, Xu has shown that having even a little flexibility in resources drastically improves wait times”: I blogged about this in January 2010 … Continue reading
Why OR staffing and scheduling is different than ER staffing and scheduling…
The OR case load has a very high daily variability of patient arrivals similar to an ER. However, unlike an ER patient’s arrival that normally may monopolize a single (or shared) ER nurse and room until the next caretaker (physician, … Continue reading
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