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Table 4 The proposed reservation policies for emergency patients

From: A discrete event simulation approach for reserving capacity for emergency patients in the radiology department

Cases

Schedule rule

Reservation rule for emergency patients

Yes/no

Position

Base Case

(2, 1, 0)

No

–

Case 1

(2, 1, 0)

Yes

the initial stage of an hour

Case 2

(2, 1, 0)

Yes

the end stage of an hour

Case 3

(2, 1, 0)

Yes

intermediate stage of an hour

Case 4

(2, 1, 0)

Yes

average distributed in an hour