Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia

This paper explores the potential of computer simulation model to assess the effect of patient increase to emergency department performance and the patient flow. A simulation model of emergency department is developed based on discrete event simulation and system dynamics modeling approach to cap...

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Main Authors:	Norazura, Ahmad, Noraida, Abdul Ghani, Anton Abdulbasah, Kamil, Razman, Mat Tahar
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Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	T Technology (General)
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spelling	ump-82242015-03-03T09:40:17Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8224/ Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia Norazura, Ahmad Noraida, Abdul Ghani Anton Abdulbasah, Kamil Razman, Mat Tahar T Technology (General) This paper explores the potential of computer simulation model to assess the effect of patient increase to emergency department performance and the patient flow. A simulation model of emergency department is developed based on discrete event simulation and system dynamics modeling approach to capture the behavior of an integrated system. Several scenarios are conducted to help management determine the required resources due to patient volume increase that will not breach the national target time for patient to be attended to in emergency department. Results from the scenarios show that a 7% increase of patients affects most of the performance measures. In addition, medical assistants are the important resources in emergency department operations. 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8224/1/In_Vitro_Degradation_Study_of_Novel_HEC_PVA_collagen_Nanofibrous_Scaffold_for_Skin_Tissue_Engineering_Applications.pdf Norazura, Ahmad and Noraida, Abdul Ghani and Anton Abdulbasah, Kamil and Razman, Mat Tahar (2014) Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia. Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia , 63 (16). pp. 78-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/IPEDR DOI:10.7763/IPEDR
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spellingShingle	T Technology (General) Norazura, Ahmad Noraida, Abdul Ghani Anton Abdulbasah, Kamil Razman, Mat Tahar Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia
description	This paper explores the potential of computer simulation model to assess the effect of patient increase to emergency department performance and the patient flow. A simulation model of emergency department is developed based on discrete event simulation and system dynamics modeling approach to capture the behavior of an integrated system. Several scenarios are conducted to help management determine the required resources due to patient volume increase that will not breach the national target time for patient to be attended to in emergency department. Results from the scenarios show that a 7% increase of patients affects most of the performance measures. In addition, medical assistants are the important resources in emergency department operations.
format	Article
author	Norazura, Ahmad Noraida, Abdul Ghani Anton Abdulbasah, Kamil Razman, Mat Tahar
author_facet	Norazura, Ahmad Noraida, Abdul Ghani Anton Abdulbasah, Kamil Razman, Mat Tahar
author_sort	Norazura, Ahmad
title	Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia
title_short	Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia
title_full	Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Simulating the Impact of an Increase in Patient Volume on a Government Emergency Department in Malaysia
title_sort	simulating the impact of an increase in patient volume on a government emergency department in malaysia
publishDate	2014
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