A review on the relation between simulation and improvement in hospitals

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Van Lent, Wineke Am ^a,b   Vanberkel, Peter ^c   Van Harten, Wim H ^a,b  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hospitals; Implementation; Operations management; Process improvement; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; REVIEW; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOSPITALS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84858021468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-18     Document Type: Review

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