Simulating an emergency department: The importance of modeling the interactions between physicians and delegates in a discrete event simulation

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lim, Morgan E ^a,b   Worster, Andrew ^a   Goeree, Ron ^a,b   Tarride, Jean Éric ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ACUITY; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL DELEGATION; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELEGATION, PROFESSIONAL; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT ACUITY; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE;

EID: 84878009080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-59     Document Type: Article

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