Functional Analysis for Operating Emergency Department of a General Hospital

Topics:
Healthcare Services
Tags:
Analysis,
Data-generator,
Emergency Department,
Hospital,
Patient
Source:
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

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Overview: An entire emergency department of a general hospital is simulated to examine patient flows. First, times needed for both outpatients and patients arriving via ambulance to be processed in the emergency department are examined. A special-purpose data-generator is designed and developed to create experimental data for executing a simulation. It is found that the patients spend the longer part of their time waiting, depending on the number of patients to be processed. In addition, it is found that the waiting time for available emergency-treatment beds, doctors, drips, and stretchers accounts for the major part of all the waiting time in the emergency department.

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Format: PDF | Size: 397KB | Date: Nov 2004 | Pages: 9

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