The stochastic determinants of hospital-bed supply.
This paper uses a general queuing-theoretic model to derive more appropriate measures of hospital quality, such as turn-away probabilities and patient's expected waiting time, than have been used in recent empirical work [e.g., Joskow (1980)].
D006276:Health Facility Size; D006761:Hospitals; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010343:Patient Admission; D011336:Probability; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013598:Systems Theory; D014850:Waiting Lists