<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>ijesm</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>International Journal of Engineering, Science and</JournalTitle> <PISSN>I</PISSN> <EISSN>S</EISSN> <Volume-Issue>Volume 4, Issue 2 </Volume-Issue> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season>June 2015</Season> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>2015</Year> <Month>06</Month> <Day>1</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>Engineering, Science and Mathematics</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>BED ALLOCATION IN HOSPITALS __ampersandsignndash; A CASE STUDY</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>49</FirstPage> <LastPage>58</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>Vemula Susheela</FirstName> <LastName>Triveni*</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI/> <Abstract>Due to increase of patient inflows and types of medical services demanded over a time period, the hospital administration is faced with the problem of assigning bed for various medical services in a hospital. The objective of this study is to allocate the number of beds in hospital wards compatible with the service level desired by the hospital administration.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords>Queuing model, health care, queue discipline, arrivals,services.</Keywords> <URLs> <Abstract>https://www.ijesm.co.in/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=3030&title=BED ALLOCATION IN HOSPITALS __ampersandsignndash; A CASE STUDY</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References/> </References> </Journal> </Article> </ArticleSet>