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Hoot NR, LeBlanc LJ, Jones I, Levin SR, Zhou C, Gadd CS, Aronsky D. Forecasting emergency department crowding: a discrete event simulation. Annals of emergency medicine. 2008 Aug;52(52). 116-25.
Abstract
To develop a discrete event simulation of emergency department (ED) patient flow for the purpose of forecasting near-future operating conditions and to validate the forecasts with several measures of ED crowding.