Hospital length of stay of patients is a crucial factor for the effective planning and
management of hospital resources. There is considerable interest in predicting the LoS of …

Modelling patient flow in health care systems is vital in understanding the system activity and
may therefore prove to be useful in improving their functionality. An extensively used …

Matrix-Exponential Distributions in Applied Probability Page 1 Probability Theory and
Stochastic Modelling 81 Mogens Bladt Bo Friis Nielsen Matrix-Exponential Distributions in …

Over the past few years, there has been increased interest in data mining and machine
learning methods to improve hospital performance, in particular hospitals want to improve …

A model that accurately predicts, at the time of admission, the Length of Stay (LOS) for
hospitalized patients could be an effective tool for healthcare providers. It could enable early …

The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to describe the movement of patients through a
hospital department by using classical queueing theory and, on the other hand, to present a …

Phase-type distributions constitute a very versatile class of distributions. They have been
used in a wide range of stochastic modelling applications in areas as diverse as …

A stochastic version of the Harrison—Millard multistage model of the flow of patients through
a hospital division is developed in order to model correctly not only the average but also the …

Healthcare resource planners need to develop policies that ensure optimal allocation of
scarce healthcare resources. This goal can be achieved by forecasting daily resource …

Coxian phase-type distributions are a special type of Markov model that describes duration
until an event occurs in terms of a process consisting of a sequence of latent phases. This …