Simulating patient flow through an emergency department using process-driven discrete event simulation

Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care, SEHC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-83

  Raunak, M ^a   Osterweil, L ^a   Wise, A ^a   Clarke, L ^a   Henneman, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASE OF USE; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; EXECUTABLE PROCESS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; MEDICAL COMMUNITY; PATIENT FLOW; PROCESS-DRIVEN; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; SIMULATION ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; EMERGENCY ROOMS; HEALTH CARE;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 70349909906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SEHC.2009.5069608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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