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We applied the Statecharts formalism to describe the progress of individual patients through surgical care as a series of asynchronous updates in patient records generated in reaction to events produced by parallel finite-state machines representing concurrent clinical and managerial activities.
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The visual formalism of Statecharts enables the representation of surgical care delivery as areactive system of concurrent activities by providing rigorous specification of permissible sequences of events, conditions, and actions and the temporal logic of events generated by these activities.
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This page is a summary of: Using the Statecharts paradigm for simulation of patient flow in surgical care, Health Care Management Science, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-007-9026-7.
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