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SIMPLE MODELS OF WAITING LISTS
- G. J. RODGERS,
- Y. J. YAP, and
- T. P. YOUNG
Advances in Complex Systems01 Jun 2003
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Motivated by recent empirical studies of the length distribution of hospital waiting lists, we introduce and solve a set of models that imitate the formation of waiting lists. Patients arriving in the system must choose a waiting list to join, based on its length. At the same time patients leave the lists as they get served. The model illustrates how the power-law distributions found in the empirical studies might arise, but indicates that the mechanism causing the power-laws is unlikely to be the preferential behavior of patients or their physicians.

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