Chapter 1. Traditional and Management Engineering in Operational Decision-Making -- Chapter 2. Capacity and Patient Flow Problems -- Chapter 3. Staffing and Scheduling Problems with Uncertain Patient Demand -- Chapter 4. Staffing and Resource Allocation Problems Amenable to Analytic Optimization...

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