Queuing Network Analysis of Patient flow and Resource Allocation

📄 Project Abstract

The organizations that care for persons who are ill and injured vary widely in scope and scale, from specialized outpatient clinics to large urban hospitals, teaching hospitals, to regional healthcare systems. Despite these differences, one can view the healthcare processes that these organizations generate within the context of queuing systems in which patients arrive, wait for service, obtain service, and then depart (Fomomundam and Herrmann, 2007). From birth to death, we are all part of the health care system. We rely on hospitals to provide preventive care and treat our illnesses, diseases and injuries. In fact, health care is perhaps the stage determinant of people's quality of life and longevity (Hall, 2006). With rapid change and realignment of healthcare system, new lines of services and facilities to render the same, severe financial pressure on the healthcare organizations, and extensive use of expanded managerial skills in healthcare setting, the use of queuing model has be...