Open AccessA Model to Create an Efficient and Equitable Admission Policy for Patients Arriving to the Cardiothoracic ICU*
Author(s) -
Muer Yang,
Michael Fry,
Jayashree Raikhelkar,
Cynthia Chin,
Anelechi Anyanwu,
Jordan Brand,
Corey Scurlock
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0b013e31826a44d7
Subject(s) - medicine , inefficiency , intensive care unit , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , surgery , economics , microeconomics
To develop queuing and simulation-based models to understand the relationship between ICU bed availability and operating room schedule to maximize the use of critical care resources and minimize case cancellation while providing equity to patients and surgeons.
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