Time-based |
Waiting time for different patient classes (Cimellaro & Piqué, 2016; Yang et al., 2016) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Door-to-Doctor time (Konrad et al., 2013) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Expected length of stay (Chen & Wang, 2016) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Based on number of patients |
Number of treated patients (Bruneau & Reinhorn, 2007; Jerić & Figueira, 2012) |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Minimum service level (Lameris et al., 2008) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Number of expected deaths (Arora et al., 2010; Xiang & Zhuang, 2016) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Unmet demand level (Crowe et al., 2014) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Loss level (Cimellaro et al., 2010) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Cost-based |
Deprivation cost (Chen & Wang, 2016; El-Rifai et al., 2016; Lodree et al., 2017) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Utilisation rate |
Nurse utilisation (Griffiths et al., 2005) |
Ignores patient's health condition |
✓ |
Limited to the medical staff allocation |
Only concerns with the use of resources |
Refusal rate (Harper & Shahani, 2007) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |