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Modeling of patient flows in a large-scale outpatient hospital ward by making use of electronic medical records

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Soemon Takakuwa,

Daisuke KatagiriAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '07: Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come

Pages 1523 - 1531

Published: 09 December 2007 Publication History

Abstract

All departments of an outpatient hospital ward of Nagoya University hospital were simulated to examine patient flows and congestion. The method of gathering the required data on times for all outpatients and their routes is described in the performing simulation, especially by making use of the electronic medical records. An outpatient visits one or more clinical departments and/or one or more test/inspection rooms, the reception area, and the payment department. In this procedure, a series of data of terminal units and of test/inspection terminals was used to obtain the required input data for performing simulation as well as the electronic medical records. It was found that the proposed procedure was quite effective to perform a simulation of a large-scale hospital to examine patient flows by applying an actual case.

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WSC '07: Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come

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Liu YTakakuwa S(2011)Modeling the materials handling in a container terminal using electronic real-time tracking dataProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2431518.2431705(1596-1604)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2431518.2431705
Liu YTakakuwa SDunkin AIngalls R(2009)Simulation-based personnel planning for materials handling at a cross-docking center under retail distribution environmentWinter Simulation Conference10.5555/1995456.1995786(2414-2425)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1995456.1995786
Takakuwa SWijewickrama AJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)Optimizing staffing schedule in light of patient satisfaction for the whole outpatient hospital wardProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1517007(1500-1508)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
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