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WSC
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Functional Analysis for Operating Emergency Department of a General Hospital
An entire emergency department of a general hospital is simulated to examine patient flows. First, times needed for both outpatients and patients arriving via ambulance to be proc...
Soemon Takakuwa, Hiroko Shiozaki
WSC
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Operational Analysis Framework for Emergency Operations Center Preparedness Training
As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security works to create an integrated emergency response system, it is evident that computer-based solutions can support this process. Individu...
Eytan Pollak, Mark Falash, Lorie Ingraham, Vivian ...
WSC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Merging six emergency departments into one: a simulation approach
Simulation of existing systems can reinforce a Subject Matter Expert’s gut feelings. However, it is more difficult to develop intuition for proposed systems, particularly when c...
Martin J. Miller, David M. Ferrin, Marshall Ashby,...
IHI
2010
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13 years 14 days ago
Dynamic scheduling of emergency department resources
The processes carried out in a hospital emergency department can be thought of as structures of activities that require resources in order to execute. Costs are reduced when resou...
Junchao Xiao, Leon J. Osterweil, Qing Wang
WSC
2008
13 years 8 months ago
Simulation-based verification of lean improvement for emergency room process
One of the key challenges to health care access in Canadian hospitals is growing overcrowding of the Emergency Departments (EDs), leading to the medical personnel overload, and th...
Nancy Khurma, Gheorghe M. Bacioiu, Zbigniew J. Pas...