A Review on Simulation and Modelling for Patient Flow in Emergency Department

Hamza, Nidal; Majid, Mazlina Abdul; Adam, Khalid Mohamed; Bakar, Noor Akma Abu

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/551/1/012037

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“…The alternative solution is to develop a simulation model to investigate evacuation. However, to model safe human evacuation with the processes and procedures, the variety of human movement makes it difficult (Hamza et al, 2019). A few techniques for simulation will be explored as they are described in the sections that follow for the purpose to have a simulation model related to human evacuation with the evacuation processes and procedures.…”

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Towards Effective Evacuation Procedures in Disaster Management (Dm): Simulation Modelling and Governance Strategies

Bakar

Hashim

Aminuddin³

et al. 2023

JGI

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Natural catastrophes and disasters may cause the destruction of infrastructure and personal property. In order to reduce the effects of such tragedies, the effectiveness of the evacuation procedures is essential. Effective evacuation procedures, however, also depend on governance issues in addition to technical aspects like infrastructure and communication. This paper intends to review on how governance, and evacuation protocols relate to emergency preparedness and disaster management (DM). Thus, this study explores the use of agent-based and social force theory in developing evacuation simulation models that incorporate evacuation governance strategies. Practitioners and policymakers can better understand the elements that determine the effectiveness of evacuation procedures and create more efficient methods for disaster management and emergency response by modelling human behaviour in disaster circumstances. The policy is an illustration of how governance elements can be integrated into evacuation procedures and guidelines for effective DM. Thus, the expected result for this study emphasises the significance of governance for policymakers and practitioners in the execution of evacuation procedures.

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Section: Figure 1 the Theoretical Foundation Of Human Evacuation Proc...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Effective Evacuation Procedures in Disaster Management (Dm): Simulation Modelling and Governance Strategies

Bakar

Hashim

Aminuddin³

et al. 2023

JGI

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“…Their results show that, increasing the number of nurses responsible on the urgent patients serving over the Stat patients serving could improve the efficiency of the caring service. A review of combination of DES, ABS, and DES integration and ABS technique to solve the problem of modeling emergency waiting time has been made in [2]. This review summarizes and concludes the findings of the articles which used individual and combined techniques.…”

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“…After visiting one of the outpatients in Iraq specifically in the capital (Baghdad), conducting interviews with the staff including (registration staff, nurses, some doctors, financial staff and pharmacy staff), we got the statistics shown in the tables below. The number of nurses in Table (2) above is 5, it is not enough compared with the number of the doctors in the outpatient. This issue needs to improve by increasing the number of nurses in the clinic.…”

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“…Simulation is one of the most powerful methodologies that have been investigated to study the problems and issues of some sophisticated service and manufacturing systems [1]. In general, models of simulation are designed to evaluate the changes in a system [2]. For instance, outpatient is one of the most important fields provided services in healthcare sectors.…”

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“…Figure(2) shows us the model with to resources (which mean the dentists), while in Figure(3), the model using three resources. After executing the models in Figure(1 & 2) we got the report results illustrated in Figure(4).…”

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The Effectiveness of Using Discrete Event Simulation to Optimize the Quality of Service of Outpatient in Iraq: A Case Study

Mohammed

Mohsin

Mohammed

2021

IJOIR

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One of the most important healthcare institutions in Iraq is Outpatient clinic that requires a lot of thinking to improve the way to provide services and the nature of care. Outpatient clinics are increasingly keen to meet the needs of care, and this has been recognized as a fundamental issue related to service quality. Therefore, many researchers in various fields have taken this matter as a basis for their research, as it is considered a rich material for research due to the problems these institutions contain. The most important problems faced by outpatient clinics are the waiting time and the insufficient number of clinic staff to perform the various tasks. The aim of this paper is to reduce the waiting time by building a model for the clinic environment, especially dental clinics, and trying to benefit from all the existing medical staff and exploit their experiences. Since the patient spends a long time between registration, returning to the doctor and finally the result or process that the doctor performs, building such a model might help in identifying and improving the problem. The simulation model built in this research for the clinic is based on modelling the discrete events inside the dental clinic using the Arena software. This form is used to assess the quality of services provided by dental outpatient clinics in Iraq.

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Reducing the Throughput Time for Patient Flow in Emergency Department: Simulation and Modelling Overview

Hamza

Majid

Al-bashiri

2020

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Satisfaction of patient considered as a main issue of quality of service in the healthcare sector. Typically, this satisfaction depends on the services quality provided by hospitals. Emergency Department (ED), as a critical department in the hospital, has a complicated registration system that may lead to increase the patient throughput time. Thus, to minimize this growing in the throughput time, numerous simulation and modelling, in the literature, have been developed and introduced. However, the throughput time in ED still represent in issue need for improvement to increase the ED performance. Therefore, in this paper, the main objective is providing an overview related to the characteristics and significance of current simulation and model techniques. As a result, in the ED realistically, integrating Agent-Based Simulation (ABS), Desecrate Event Simulation (DES), and System Dynamic (SD) techniques has been preferred as the solution to modelling the patient flow in ED and in turn may lead to decrease the throughput time. The proactive and independent characteristics of aforementioned techniques can contribute to the good representation the patients flow and their throughput time in ED.

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A Review on Simulation and Modelling for Patient Flow in Emergency Department

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Towards Effective Evacuation Procedures in Disaster Management (Dm): Simulation Modelling and Governance Strategies

Towards Effective Evacuation Procedures in Disaster Management (Dm): Simulation Modelling and Governance Strategies

The Effectiveness of Using Discrete Event Simulation to Optimize the Quality of Service of Outpatient in Iraq: A Case Study

Reducing the Throughput Time for Patient Flow in Emergency Department: Simulation and Modelling Overview

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