2008
EMSS 2008 Proceeding
Hada: towards a generic tool for data analysis for hospital simulations,
Authors: Iván Castilla Rodríguez, Murat Gunal, Michael Pidd,R. M. Aguilar
Abstract
Discrete Event Simulation (DES) in healthcare modeling has been an active research area for many years. However one of the drawbacks of this method is the need for meaningful data for building valid models. This paper discusses Hospital Activity Data Analysis (HADA) which is software specifically designed to be used with a generic hospital simulation model (DGHPSim). The DGHPSim model is built for UK healthcare system and is presented conceptually in this paper. HADA integrates with raw data from different sources to evaluate a hospital?s past performance. Its results can be used by hospital managers for statistical inference and general understanding, and by DGHPSim users for estimating appropriate parameters of the simulation models. As well as its use in DGHPSim HADA is well-suited to be generically used for any patient-flow type hospital simulation models.
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