Three critical challenges for modeling and simulation in healthcare

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1823-1830

  Young, Terry ^a   Eatock, Julie ^a   Jahangirian, Mohsen ^a   Naseer, Aisha ^a   Lilford, Richard ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CHALLENGES; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; MODELING AND SIMULATION;

HEALTH CARE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77951595724     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2009.5429186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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