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Table 3.

Impact of expanding hours of operations of the department by 2.5 h (7 a.m.–8 p.m.)

Scenario	Number of additional patients and appointment time random at the hour	Multi-resource wait time (min)
Base case	-	23
2 CT and 3,4,5 IR	2 CT: 6 p.m., 7 p.m. 3 IR: 5 p.m. (+ 1 for 5 IR), 6 p.m. (+ 1 for 4 IR), 7 p.m.	28, 31, 34
3 CT and 3, 4, 5 IR	3 CT: 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m. 3 IR: 5 p.m. (+ 1 for 5 IR), 6 p.m. (+ 1 for 4 IR), 7 p.m.	35, 41, 47

Scenario

Number of additional patients and appointment time random at the hour

Multi-resource wait time (min)

Base case

2 CT and 3,4,5 IR

2 CT: 6 p.m., 7 p.m.

3 IR: 5 p.m. (+ 1 for 5 IR), 6 p.m. (+ 1 for 4 IR), 7 p.m.

28, 31, 34

3 CT and 3, 4, 5 IR

3 CT: 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m.

3 IR: 5 p.m. (+ 1 for 5 IR), 6 p.m. (+ 1 for 4 IR), 7 p.m.

35, 41, 47