Journal of Northeastern University Natural Science ›› 2017, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 604-608.DOI: 10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2017.04.030

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Patient Routing Based on Beds Fairness from Outpatient Department to Internal Wards

CHEN Dan 1,2, ZHU Hua-bo 3, LUO Xing-gang 1   

  1. 1. School of Information Science & Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China; 2. School of Management, Liaoning Institute of Science and Technology, Benxi 117004, China; 3. School of Economics Mangement, Liaoning Shihua University, Fushun 113001, China.
  • Received:2015-04-09 Revised:2015-04-09 Online:2017-04-15 Published:2017-04-11
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Abstract: Based on theoretical analysis of flowchart and mass patient flow data, an inverted-V model with single patient queue and several heterogeneous server pools was established to describe patient routing allocation process. With the goal of routing allocation fairness for the beds of internal wards, the application of Markov process of randomized most-idle (RMI) routing policy in the inverted-V model was analyzed. The occupied and service rates of sever pools under different routing policies were obtained, and the routing policy fairness was analyzed theoretically. The experimental results showed the occupied and service rates for different server pool under RMI policy are more balanced than that of the average allocation policy.

Key words: healthcare, routing allocation, random, Markov, fairness

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