作者:Barz, Christiane; Rajaram, Kumar
作者单位:Technical University of Berlin; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要:We consider a patient admission problem to a hospital with multiple resource constraints (e. g., OR and beds) and a stochastic evolution of patient care requirements across multiple resources. There is a small but significant proportion of emergency patients who arrive randomly and have to be accepted at the hospital. However, the hospital needs to decide whether to accept, postpone, or even reject the admission from a random stream of non-emergency elective patients. We formulate the control ...