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Exact results for the Barabasi model of human dynamics

, 2005
Human activity patterns display a bursty dynamics, with interevent times following a heavy tailed distribution. This behavior has been recently shown to be rooted in the fact that humans assign their active tasks different priorities, a process that can ...
Alexei Vázquez, C. Dewes, D. Gross, H. R. Anderson, J. H. Greene, P. Reynolds, S. D. Kleban, V. Paxson, W. Feller   +8 more
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Emergency Department Waiting Time at Alzahra Hospital

مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2011
• Introduction: Emergency department is one of the most important hospital wards that offers emergency services to unstable patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Alireza Jabbari, Marzieh Jafarian, Elahe Khorasani, Mohsen Ghaffari, Mansure Majlesi   +4 more
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Third degree waiting time discrimination: optimal allocation of a public sector health care treatment under rationing by waiting [PDF]

In many public health care systems treatment is rationed by waiting time. We examine the optimal allocation of a .xed supply of a treatment between di¤erent groups of patients.
Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani
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Waiting Time Control Chart for M/G/1 Retrial Queue

Computation
Retrial queues are used extensively to model many practical problems in service systems, call centers, data centers, and computer network systems. The average waiting time is the main observable characteristic of the retrial queues. Long queues may cause
Yih-Bey Lin, Tzu-Hsin Liu, Yu-Cheng Tsai, Fu-Min Chang   +3 more
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Do waiting times reduce hospital costs? [PDF]

Using a sample of 137 hospitals over the period 1998-2002 in the English National Health Service, we estimate the elasticity of hospital costs with respect to waiting times.
Anderson Stanciole, Luigi Siciliani, Rowena Jacobs   +2 more
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Estimating outpatient waiting time: a simulation approach

Payesh, 2009
Payesh2009; 8: 327-333Accepted for publication: 20 February 2007[EPub a head of print-8 August 2009] Objective(s): Providing a simulation model for understanding process and patient flow in outpatient clinics and estimating patients' waiting time.Methods:
Afsoon Aeenparast, Seyed Jamaledin Tabibi, Kamran Shahanaghi, Mirbahador Aryanejhad   +3 more
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Outcome evaluation of technical strategies on reduction of patient waiting time in the outpatient department at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre—Northern Tanzania

BMC Health Services Research
Background The Tanzania healthcare system is beset by prolonged waiting time in its hospitals particularly in the outpatient departments (OPD). Previous studies conducted at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) revealed that patients typically ...
Manasseh J. Mwanswila, Henry A. Mollel, Lawrencia D. Mushi   +2 more
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A NEW METHOD OF CONTROLLING AIR TRAFFIC IN WAITING AREAS

Научный вестник МГТУ ГА, 2016
The method associated with ordering until aircraft are in waiting areas and increasing the capacity of the sector approach are dealt with in the article.
V. B. Malygin, S. V. Gubenko, A. N. Turkov   +2 more
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Waiting times and the decision to buy private health insurance. CHERE Working Paper 2010/9 [PDF]

Over 45% of Australians buy health insurance for private treatment in hospital. This is despite having access to universal and free public hospital treatment.
Elizabeth Savage, Glenn Jones, Meliyanni Johar, Michael Keane, Olena Stavrunova   +4 more
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Digital Taxi Stands: Informed Choice Reduces Waiting Time

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We have investigated waiting times for taxis at the airport taxi stand at Oslo Airport Gardermoen, under two different regulatory systems, one allowing taxis to wait at a taxi stand directly in front of the airport and at a near depot and one only ...
Jørgen Aarhaug, Fitwi Wolday
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