Barriers to implementing simulation in health care
WSC '94 Proceedings of the 26th conference on Winter simulation
A survey of data resources for simulating patient flows in healthcare delivery systems
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
Simulation modelling for performance measurement in healthcare
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
Modeling emergency care in hospitals: a paradox - the patient should not drive the process
Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
Hospital management knowledge discovery using discrete event simulation
ACSW '07 Proceedings of the fifth Australasian symposium on ACSW frontiers - Volume 68
Modelling patient arrivals when simulating an accident and emergency unit
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
Model reuse versus model development: effects on credibility and learning
Winter Simulation Conference
Modeling and simulation of cataract surgery processes
Winter Simulation Conference
A generalized simulation model of an integrated emergency post
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Using simplified discrete-event simulation models for health care applications
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
An application of discrete-event simulation to an outpatient healthcare clinic with batch arrivals
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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In recent years hospitals have been vigorously searching for ways to reduce costs and improve productivity. One tool, simulation, is now widely accepted as an effective method for assisting management in evaluating different operational alternatives. It can help improve existing Emergency Departments (EDs) and assist in planning and designing new EDs. In order to increase the acceptance of simulation in healthcare systems in general and EDs in particular, hospital management should be directly involved in the development of these projects. Such involvement will also bolster the model's credibility. In addition, it is important to simplify simulation processes as much as is reasonably possible and use visual aids or animation that will heighten users' confidence in the model's ability. This study lays the foundation for the development of a simulation tool which is general, flexible, intuitive, simple to use and contains default values for most of the system's parameters.