International Journal of Engineering, Science and Mathematics

  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

Bed allocation in hospitals – a case study

  • Author:
  • Vemula Susheela Triveni
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 49 to 58

Geethanjali College of Engineering and Technology, Department of Science and Humanities, Cheeryala, Hyderabad, T.S India

Abstract

Due to increase of patient inflows and types of medical services demanded over a time period, the hospital administration is faced with the problem of assigning bed for various medical services in a hospital. The objective of this study is to allocate the number of beds in hospital wards compatible with the service level desired by the hospital administration.

Keywords

Queuing model, health care, queue discipline, arrivals, services