In-Patient Flow Analysis Using ProModelTM Simulation Package
Date
2000-11
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Food and Resource Economics Department
Abstract
This paper emphasizes the basic modeling approach of
general in-patient flow in a major hospital in the East
Coast region. Simulation was used to analyze the inpatient
flow. The first objective of this study was to
determine the bottlenecks for in-in-patient flow. In order
to understand the general in-patient flow, some emphasis
was also given to the other units such as Medical-Surgical,
Telemetry, Intensive Care Units (ICU), etc. Second
objective was to study the impact of bed availability on
the waiting time of admitted patients in ED before being
transferred to assigned beds in other units of the hospital.
A preliminary model was developed and validated based
on the data collected for the selected time periods (busy
four months). Different “what-if” scenarios were studied.
This paper presents the basic model and its results.
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Simulation, In-patient flow, Health science