ED innovations. New challenges require new ideas.
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Frank Zilm
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Virtual ambulatory care. Computer simulation applications.
Computer simulation modeling has evolved during the past twenty years into an effective tool for analyzing and planning ambulatory care facilities. This article explains the use of this tool in three case-study, ambulatory care settings--a GI lab, holding beds for a cardiac catheterization laboratory, and in emergency services. These examples also illustrate the use of three software packages currently available: MedModel, Simul8, and WITNESS.
Ambulatory Care Facilities↗
Estimating emergency service treatment bed needs.
Estimating the required number of emergency service treatment beds must be sensitive to utilization patterns and strategic operational assumptions. This article describes key issues and illustrates techniques for the analysis of arrival and service times. Seasonal arrival patterns, time of day of arrivals, and common statistical distributions for length of stay are discussed. Alternative modeling approaches to estimate future bed needs are described, including visits/year per treatment space, simple queuing modeling, and detailed computer simulation. Sample estimates of treatment rooms needs are provided for typical arrival rates and lengths of stay. A generalized regression model based on the simulation trials is suggested for cases that fall outside of the illustrated simulation case studies.
Beds↗