A Simulation Model for Planning Services for Renal Patients in Europe
作者:
DaviesHuw,
DaviesRuth,
期刊:
Journal of the Operational Research Society
(Taylor Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 38,
issue 8
页码: 693-700
ISSN:0160-5682
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1057/jors.1987.118
出版商: Taylor&Francis
关键词: health service;modelling;planning;simulation
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
AbstractA discrete-event simulation model is being developed to provide information for national and regional health planners about the effect of different treatment policies and practices on the increasing numbers of patients with irreversible kidney failure. The simulation program, written in Pascal using Pascal SIM, describes the activities of individual patients whose progress through treatments depends on their characteristics and treatment history, as well as on treatment availability. Programming techniques have been developed to cope with the multiple scheduling of patient entities and the resultant queue-management problems. In order to provide simulation runs on request, for any population group, appropriate data is selected from the European Dialysis and Transplant Association Registry data base for use in the simulation program. Results are shown on a computer screen while the simulation is running, and are saved for further analysis to provide feedback to the requesting organization.
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