TY - CHAP
T1 - Discrete-event simulation of health care systems
AU - Jacobson, Sheldon Howard
AU - Hall, Shane N.
AU - Swisher, James R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Over the past 40 years, health care organizations have faced ever-increasing pressures to deliver quality care while facing rising costs, lower reimbursements, and new regulatory demands. Discrete-event simulation has become a popular and effective decision-making tool for the optimal allocation of scarce health care resources to improve patient flow, while minimizing health care delivery costs and increasing patient satisfaction. The proliferation of increasingly sophisticated discrete-event simulation software packages has resulted in a large number of new application opportunities, including more complex implementations. In addition, combined optimization and simulation tools allow decisionmakers to quickly determine optimal system configurations, even for complex integrated facilities. This chapter provides an overview of discrete-event simulation modeling applications to health care clinics and integrated health care systems (e.g., hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and pharmacies) over the past 40 years.
AB - Over the past 40 years, health care organizations have faced ever-increasing pressures to deliver quality care while facing rising costs, lower reimbursements, and new regulatory demands. Discrete-event simulation has become a popular and effective decision-making tool for the optimal allocation of scarce health care resources to improve patient flow, while minimizing health care delivery costs and increasing patient satisfaction. The proliferation of increasingly sophisticated discrete-event simulation software packages has resulted in a large number of new application opportunities, including more complex implementations. In addition, combined optimization and simulation tools allow decisionmakers to quickly determine optimal system configurations, even for complex integrated facilities. This chapter provides an overview of discrete-event simulation modeling applications to health care clinics and integrated health care systems (e.g., hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and pharmacies) over the past 40 years.
KW - Clinics
KW - Discrete-event simulation
KW - Health care services
KW - Hospitals
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-9512-3_12
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-9512-3_12
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84955057060
T3 - International Series in Operations Research and Management Science
SP - 273
EP - 309
BT - International Series in Operations Research and Management Science
PB - Springer
ER -