What is it about?
We searched eight bibliographic databases for the scolarly literature published over the past five decades, and found 34 publications that reported on simulation models for the flow of surgical patients.
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Why is it important?
Only half of the publications reported that models were constructed to address the needs of policy-makers, and only 26% reported some involvement of health system managers and policy-makers in the simulation study. In addition, we found a wide variation in the presentation of assumptions, system requirements, input and output data, and results of simulation-based policy analysis.
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Studies of hospital operations rarely address needs of hospital managers
Professor Boris Sobolev
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: Systematic Review of the Use of Computer Simulation Modeling of Patient Flow in Surgical Care, Journal of Medical Systems, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-009-9336-z.
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