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Modeling emergency department using a hybrid simulation approach

Within hospital, emergency department is one of the most important unit that involves complex patient movement flow and detailed operational activities. As an integrated system, the efficiency of emergency department depends on its interaction between inter-departmental units and intra-departmental...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Norazura, Abdul Ghani, Noraida, Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah, Mat Tahar, Razman
Other Authors: Yang, Gi-Chul
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2013
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TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/19077/
http://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6190-2_53
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spelling my.uum.repo.190772016-11-10T01:50:43Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/19077/ Modeling emergency department using a hybrid simulation approach Ahmad, Norazura Abdul Ghani, Noraida Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah Mat Tahar, Razman TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Within hospital, emergency department is one of the most important unit that involves complex patient movement flow and detailed operational activities. As an integrated system, the efficiency of emergency department depends on its interaction between inter-departmental units and intra-departmental elements.Over the years, with the rapid development of computer technology, there has been a rising trend of using simulation modeling to improve healthcare operations. Discrete-event simulation (DES) has become a popular and effective decision-making tool for modeling the stochastic operational activities in a system. However for a whole system approach, system dynamics (SD) has advantages over DES. SD does not require vast data and is able to capture the inter dependency relations between different units in an integrated system. Both approaches have strengths and weaknesses that may support and complement each other. An integrated model of both approaches will provide a realistic view of a complex system. This chapter provides an overview of the hybrid simulation modeling applications to emergency department. Springer Netherlands Yang, Gi-Chul Ao, Sio-long Gelman, Len 2013 Book Section PeerReviewed Ahmad, Norazura and Abdul Ghani, Noraida and Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah and Mat Tahar, Razman (2013) Modeling emergency department using a hybrid simulation approach. In: IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 229 . Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 701-711. ISBN 978-94-007-6189-6 http://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6190-2_53 doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6190-2_53
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Ahmad, Norazura
Abdul Ghani, Noraida
Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah
Mat Tahar, Razman
Modeling emergency department using a hybrid simulation approach
description Within hospital, emergency department is one of the most important unit that involves complex patient movement flow and detailed operational activities. As an integrated system, the efficiency of emergency department depends on its interaction between inter-departmental units and intra-departmental elements.Over the years, with the rapid development of computer technology, there has been a rising trend of using simulation modeling to improve healthcare operations. Discrete-event simulation (DES) has become a popular and effective decision-making tool for modeling the stochastic operational activities in a system. However for a whole system approach, system dynamics (SD) has advantages over DES. SD does not require vast data and is able to capture the inter dependency relations between different units in an integrated system. Both approaches have strengths and weaknesses that may support and complement each other. An integrated model of both approaches will provide a realistic view of a complex system. This chapter provides an overview of the hybrid simulation modeling applications to emergency department.
author2 Yang, Gi-Chul
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Ahmad, Norazura
Abdul Ghani, Noraida
Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah
Mat Tahar, Razman
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Abdul Ghani, Noraida
Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah
Mat Tahar, Razman
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title Modeling emergency department using a hybrid simulation approach
title_short Modeling emergency department using a hybrid simulation approach
title_full Modeling emergency department using a hybrid simulation approach
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