Decision support in pre-hospital stroke care operations: A case of using simulation to improve eligibility of acute stroke patients for thrombolysis treatment

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2208-2218

  Churilov, Leonid ^a,b   Fridriksdottir, Audur ^a   Keshtkaran, Mahsa ^a   Mosley, Ian ^a,c   Flitman, Andrew ^a   Dewey, Helen M ^a,d  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision support; Patient flow modeling; Pre hospital stroke services; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; ACUTE STROKE; DECISION SUPPORTS; PATIENT FLOW; PRE-HOSPITAL STROKE SERVICES; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DRUG THERAPY;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 84877798188     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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