Title :
Analysis of One Hospital using Simulation
Author :
Ju, Yanbing ; Wang, Aihua ; Zhu, Fengchun
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage. & Econ., Beijing Inst. of Technol.
Abstract :
This paper presented a discrete event simulation model for one hospital. This model was used to evaluate the current performance of the hospital, to perform bottleneck analysis of the patient process and to verify, base on simulation outputs, expanding alternatives that the hospital authority proposed. Different expanding alternatives were simulated and the simulation outputs obtained were used to provide the basis for selecting the best alternative. The implementation of the expanding alternative could decrease the waiting time of patients, increase patient throughput, and improve the service level of the hospital
Keywords :
decision making; discrete event simulation; hospitals; medical administrative data processing; bottleneck analysis; decision making; discrete event simulation model; hospital expanding alternative; hospital service level; patient process; patient waiting time; Analytical models; Brain modeling; Discrete event simulation; Hospitals; Performance evaluation; Resource management; System testing; Throughput; Uncertainty; Visualization; decision making under uncertainty; hospital expanding alternative; simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2006. SOLI '06. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0317-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0318-9
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2006.329057