Social Network based sensitivity analysis for patient flow using computer simulation

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 88, Issue , 2015, Pages 264-272

  Nikakhtar, Amin ^a   Alireza Abbasian Hosseini, S ^b   Gazula, Harshvardhan ^a   Hsiang, Simon M ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Epidemic disease; Healthcare system; Patient flow; Sensitivity analysis; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EPIDEMIC DISEASE; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; PATIENT FLOW; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84938402115     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2015.07.013     Document Type: Article

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