DMCA
A Generalized Agent-Based Model to Simulate Emergency Departments
| Citations: | 1 - 1 self |
BibTeX
@MISC{Liu_ageneralized,
author = {Zhengchun Liu and Eduardo Cabrera and Dolores Rexachs and Emilio Luque},
title = {A Generalized Agent-Based Model to Simulate Emergency Departments},
year = {}
}
Share
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
OpenURL
Abstract
Abstract—Computer simulation based methods have enjoyed widespread use in healthcare system investigation and improve-ment in recent years. Healthcare systems are based on human interactions and Emergency Departments (ED) are one of the key components of the healthcare system. The efficiency and quality of service in ED have a great influence on the whole healthcare system. The first step to intensively study the emergency depart-ment, to find its underlying problem or to provide the best service with limited budget, should be to create a realistic computational model of the ED. Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) is an excellent tool to deal with complex system like ED. This research introduces a generalized ABMS-based computational model of ED. The model has been implemented and verified in a Netlogo modeling environment and can be used to simulate different EDs through a tuning process.
Keyphrases
generalized agent-based model simulate emergency department healthcare system abstract computer simulation human interaction key component emergency department netlogo modeling environment complex system generalized abms-based computational model realistic computational model agent-based modeling widespread use great influence excellent tool whole healthcare system limited budget recent year emergency depart-ment first step different ed healthcare system investigation tuning process
