Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia
This paper explores the potential of computer simulation model to access the effect of patient increase to emergency department performance and the patient flow.A simulation model of emergency department is developed based on discrete even simulation and system dynamics modeling approach to capture...
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| author | Ahmad, Norazura Abdul Ghani, Noraida Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah Mat Tahar, Razman |
| author_facet | Ahmad, Norazura Abdul Ghani, Noraida Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah Mat Tahar, Razman |
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| description | This paper explores the potential of computer simulation model to access the effect of patient increase to emergency department performance and the patient flow.A simulation model of emergency department is developed based on discrete even simulation and system dynamics modeling approach to capture the behavior of an integrated system.Several scenarios are conducted to help management determine the required resources due to patient: volume increase that will not breach the national target time for patient to be attended to in emergency department.Results from the scenarios show that a 7% increase of patients affects most of the performance measures.In addition, medical assistants are the important resources in emergency department operations. |
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| spelling | uum-78542013-05-27T08:17:20Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/7854/ Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia Ahmad, Norazura Abdul Ghani, Noraida Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah Mat Tahar, Razman RA Public aspects of medicine This paper explores the potential of computer simulation model to access the effect of patient increase to emergency department performance and the patient flow.A simulation model of emergency department is developed based on discrete even simulation and system dynamics modeling approach to capture the behavior of an integrated system.Several scenarios are conducted to help management determine the required resources due to patient: volume increase that will not breach the national target time for patient to be attended to in emergency department.Results from the scenarios show that a 7% increase of patients affects most of the performance measures.In addition, medical assistants are the important resources in emergency department operations. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/7854/1/noraz.pdf Ahmad, Norazura and Abdul Ghani, Noraida and Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah and Mat Tahar, Razman (2013) Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia. In: 3rd International Conference on Management and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI 2013) , April 08-09, 2013, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.ipedr.com |
| spellingShingle | RA Public aspects of medicine Ahmad, Norazura Abdul Ghani, Noraida Kamil, Anton Abdulbasah Mat Tahar, Razman Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia |
| title | Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia |
| title_full | Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia |
| title_short | Simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in Malaysia |
| title_sort | simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in malaysia |
| topic | RA Public aspects of medicine |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/7854/1/noraz.pdf |
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