Increasing operating room productivity by duration categories and a newsvendor model

Juha-Matti Lehtonen1, Paulus Torkki, Antti Peltokorpi

  • 1Department of Industrial Management, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. juha-matti.2.lehtonen@tut.fi

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