Emergency services have a high potential risk for adverse events. The working conditions are sometimes conducive to making mistakes. There few studies that shown improvements in specific aspects of patient safety the emergency department, but none overall incidence. general objective is improve our by implementing improvement actions. This quasi-experimental study carried out 8 hospital service...

In this paper, we introduce an integration study which combines Data Mining (DM) and Agent Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS). This study, as a new paradigm for DM/ABMS, is concerned with two approaches: (i) applying DM techniques in ABMS investigation, and inversely (ii) utilizing ABMS results in DM research. Detailed description of each approach is presented in this paper. A conclusion and ...

Emergency department (ED) is a unit in hospital that provides treatment for acutely ill and injured patients 24 hours daily. As a system, ED reveals detailed and dynamic complexity of its interaction between inter-departmental units and intra-departmental elements. Discrete event simulation (DES) has been recognized with its ability to comprehend micro level problems with detailed complexity. F...

abstract objective: according to the definition of world health organization (who), attempting suicide is an act that a person intentionally and without others’ interference shows an abnormal behavior (such as harming themselves or eating a drug higher than treatment dose) and his objective is realizing his expected changes. the purpose of this study was to investigate the demographic character...

One of the most interesting aspects of modelling and simulation study is to describe the real world phenomena that have specific properties; especially those that are in large scales and have dynamic and complex behaviours. Studying these phenomena in the laboratory is costly and in most cases it is impossible. Therefore, Miniaturization of world phenomena in the framework of a model in order t...

OBJECTIVES Overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) is common in the UK as in other countries worldwide. Computer simulation is one approach used for understanding the causes of ED overcrowding and assessing the likely impact of changes to the delivery of emergency care. However, little is known about the usefulness of computer simulation for analysis of ED patient flow. We undertook a sys...

BACKGROUND Overcrowding in emergency departments is a worldwide problem. A systematic literature review was undertaken to scientifically explore which interventions improve patient flow in emergency departments. METHODS A systematic literature search for flow processes in emergency departments was followed by assessment of relevance and methodological quality of each individual study fulfilli...

PURPOSE Accident and emergency (A&E) departments experience a secondary peak in patient length of stay (LoS) at around four hours, caused by the coping strategies used to meet the operational standards imposed by government. The aim of this paper is to build a discrete-event simulation model that captures the coping strategies and more accurately reflects the processes that occur within an A&E ...