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Dynamic Assignment of Patients to Primary and Secondary Inpatient Units: Is Patience a Virtue?

2022-09-08

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Various hospitals in the U.S. and around the world suffer from the well-known problem of Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding, which prevents them from serving their patients in effective and efficient ways. An important contributor to this problem, which became even more dire after the COVID-19 pandemic, is prolonged boarding of patients who are admitted to inpatient units through the ED. Patients admitted thro...

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Literature Corpus work: 61f3a946-8b86-5db3-89fe-5381c2256545
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2889071

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