Utilizing a Simulation Approach for Analysis of Patient Flow in the Emergency Department: A Case Study

被引：0

作者：

Ghafouri, Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Seyed ^{[1
]}

Haji, Babak ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Sharif Univ Technol, Tehran, Iran

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF 2019 15TH IRAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (IIIEC) | 2019年

关键词：

Emergency Department; Patient Flow; Discrete-Event Simulation; Length of Stay; Case Study;

D O I：

10.1109/iiiec.2019.8720734

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

Simulation has been shown to be one of the most powerful tools in many areas of the health-care system, a system which attracted the attention of researchers due to its intricacy. The main goal of this study is to evaluate the patients' flow in an emergency department (ED). Discrete event simulation (DES) has been used as the core of this research so that it offers various ways to reduce the length of stay (LOS) of patients in different segments of ED by assessing various scenarios. In particular, a new approach for verification of the simulated model will be discussed. This study reports on the results that extracted from a case study on patient record data in one of the EDs located in Tehran province. With the goal of verifying and validating the constructed model, a simulation has been done using Simulink from MATLAB software.

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