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OR in Hospital Admission Systems: An Overview of the 20th Century

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In this article a review of Hospital Admission Systems based upon articles published during the 20th century is presented. The past history of Operations Research as applied to the admission of patients to hospital in this period is examined and the major contributions, mainly in Great Britain and the United States, are reviewed. The usual procedure for admitting patients is highlighted and the main administrative problems associated with the admission and hospitalization of patients is identified. The sources, elements and methods employed by previous research are examined and a practical application geared by the use of the available information is described. It is hoped that this material can help the reader understand the evolution of this field over the 20th century and take a broad view on the subject. Additionally, a characterization of the documents analyzed in this paper in accordance with specific key elements is proposed.

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The research was partially financed by the Portuguese Funds through FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), within the Projects UIDB/00013/2020 and UIDP/00013/2020.

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  1. Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Post-Graduation and Research in Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  2. University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, Vila Real, Portugal

    Ana Teixeira

  3. Mathematics Centre, University of Minho - Pole CMAT - UTAD, Braga, Portugal

    Ana Teixeira

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De Oliveira, M.J.F., Teixeira, A. (2023). OR in Hospital Admission Systems: An Overview of the 20th Century. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37108-0_29

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