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Queuing Networks in Health Care Systems

In: Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling

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  • Maartje E. Zonderland

    (University of Twente
    Leiden University Medical Center)

  • Richard J. Boucherie

    (University of Twente)

Abstract

Over the last decades, the concept of patient flow has received an increased amount of attention. Health care professionals have become aware that in order to analyze the performance of a single health care facility, its relationship with other health care facilities should also be taken into account. A natural choice for analysis of networks of health care facilities is queuing theory. With a queuing network a fast and flexible analysis is provided that discovers bottlenecks and allows for the evaluation of alternative set-ups of the network. In this chapter we describe how queuing theory, and networks of queues in particular, can be invoked to model, study, analyze, and solve health care problems. We describe important theoretical queuing results, give a review of the literature on the topic, discuss in detail two examples of how a health care problem is analyzed using a queuing network, and suggest directions for future research.

Suggested Citation

  • Maartje E. Zonderland & Richard J. Boucherie, 2012. "Queuing Networks in Health Care Systems," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Randolph Hall (ed.), Handbook of Healthcare System Scheduling, chapter 0, pages 201-243, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-1-4614-1734-7_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1734-7_9
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