A Study of Queues and Appointment Systems in Hospital Out-Patient Departments, with Special Reference to Waiting-Times¶
Bailey, N. T. J. (1952). A Study of Queues and Appointment Systems in Hospital Out-Patient Departments, with Special Reference to Waiting-Times. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 14(2), 185-199.
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Mechanisms¶
- Appointment Arrival Staggering
- The oldest guarding discipline here is the Bailey–Welch rule, which deliberately front-loads a small buffer and then spaces arrivals to the service rate precisely because pure even-spacing collapses under variance.
This sourceDevelops the Bailey appointment rule of scheduling an initial small block and then spacing later arrivals at approximately the mean service time to buffer service-time variation and reduce idle time and queues.
- The oldest guarding discipline here is the Bailey–Welch rule, which deliberately front-loads a small buffer and then spaces arrivals to the service rate precisely because pure even-spacing collapses under variance.
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