An open-loop feedback strategy is proposed for the control of the census of a hospital via the inpatient admission system. A semi-Markov population model is used to derive census forecasts. A suboptimal control is obtained by solving at each period a mixed-integer quadratic programming problem. A simulation permits a first evaluation of the proposed strategy as an admission decision rule.
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