“…For example, staff members may be 'on call' while working elsewhere or being off-duty, and they are called upon when additional staff is required in the ED to cope with unexpected demand peaks [376]. Methods: computer simulation [16,40,60,91,165,181,186,267,311,315,375,412,429,526,532], heuristics [38], mathematical programming [38,39,165,375,376,412], queueing theory [106,220,446,468], literature review [62,282,393].…”