Allocation of Intensive Care Unit Beds in Periods of High Demand

DOI10.1287/OPRE.2019.1876zbMath1446.90097OpenAlexW3006595961MaRDI QIDQ5131479

Serhan Ziya, Nilay Tanık Argon, Huiyin Ouyang

Publication date: 8 November 2020

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2019.1876

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processesdynamic controlhealthcare operations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40) Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42) Resource and cost allocation (including fair division, apportionment, etc.) (91B32)

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