“…Previous analytical studies have addressed partial resource capacity planning issues within the inpatient care chain, for example by dimensioning care units in isolation (eg Green and Nguyen, 2001;Gorunescu et al, 2002;Bekker and De Bruin, 2010), balancing bed utilization across multiple units (eg Akcali et al, 2006;Cochran and Bharti, 2006;Li et al, 2009), or focussing on improving the MSS to balance inpatient care demand (eg Van Oostrum et al, 2008;Adan et al, 2009;Beliën et al, 2009;Vanberkel et al, 2010b;Bekker and Koeleman, 2011). More integral approaches can be found in simulation studies (eg Harper and Shahani, 2002;Harper, 2002;Vanberkel and Blake, 2007;Troy and Rosenberg, 2009).…”