title: Some operations research applications to problems of health care systems (a survey).
abstract: In this paper, a brief survey of operations research applications to problems of health care systems is made. It shows the possibilities which exist for improving the design and operations of hospitals and other health care systems through the use of operations research approaches. The different applications have been divided into groups, but it should be noted that there is a great deal of overlapping among them.
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