Tutorial in medical decision modeling incorporating waiting lines and queues using discrete event simulation

Value in Health

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 501-506

  Jahn, Beate ^a,b   Theurl, Engelbert ^c   Siebert, Uwe ^a,d,e   Pfeiffer, Karl Peter ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f University of Applied Sciences   (Austria)

Author keywords

discrete event simulation; modeling; queue; waiting time

Indexed keywords

BARE METAL STENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CORONARY DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77954275038     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2010.00707.x     Document Type: Review

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