DocumentCode
820776
Title
On a suboptimal control of a hospital inpatient admission system
Author
Collart, D. ; Haurie, A.
Author_Institution
Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commercials, Montreal, PQ, Canada
Volume
21
Issue
2
fYear
1976
fDate
4/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
233
Lastpage
238
Abstract
An open-loop feedback strategy is proposed for the control of the census of a hospital via the inpatient admission system. A semi-Markov population model is used to derive census forecasts. A suboptimal control is obtained by solving at each period a mixed-integer quadratic programming problem. A simulation permits a first evaluation of the proposed strategy as an admission decision rule.
Keywords
Decision procedures; Hospitals; Optimal stochastic control; Stochastic optimal control; Suboptimal control; Atmospheric modeling; Automatic control; Boundary conditions; Control systems; Differential equations; Hospitals; Open loop systems; Optimal control; Riccati equations; Vectors;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9286
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TAC.1976.1101167
Filename
1101167
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