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Emergency Department: A General Adaptable Simulation Model Implemented
In Arena |
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Authors: |
Arturo Liguori, Giorgio Romanin-Jacur |
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(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited
by: Flaminio Squazzoni,
Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for
Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-8-1 28th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Brescia,
Italy, May 27th – 30th,
2014 |
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Arturo
Liguori, Giorgio Romanin-Jacur
(2014). Emergency Department: A General Adaptable
Simulation Model Implemented In Arena, ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0235 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0235 |
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Abstract: |
The Emergency Department of
a hospital is devoted to provide first aid to outpatients. A correct
organization and resource dimensioning is very important both in the planning
and in the management phase and may be usefully supported by a simulation
model to be applied by administrators and operators. As an emergency
department is a very complex framework, a model which
simulates it requires a large amount of time and an expert software
programmer to be built and implemented. In this paper a generalized flexible
model has been built up, able to reproduce all common structural and functional
characteristics of every actual emergency room. This simulation model can be
easily adapted to almost all emergency departments only by defining its
functional parameters without altering its structure; it is written in
language SIMAN by tool Arena, widely diffused, and permits an easy
readability also by non expert users. |
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