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A simulation-based modeling framework to deal with clinical pathways

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Yasar A. Ozcan,

Elena Tànfani,

Angela TestiAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '11: Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference

Pages 1190 - 1201

Published: 11 December 2011 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we focus our attention on the analysis and management of Clinical Pathways (CPs) in health care systems. From an operational point of view, the CP is "the path" followed by a patient with a given pathology through the health-care system. We start by a global vision and propose a modeling framework based on a discrete event simulation model to identify the critical activities and scarce resources that represent the process bottlenecks both from a patient-centered and facility-centered point of view. Moreover, we face the challenging problem of integrating simulation and optimization in order to put together the capability of the simulation in the scenario analysis ("what-if" analysis) and in describing the dynamics of the system considered and the decisional strength of the optimization, i.e., the "what-best" analysis. The framework is applied to a case study for the thyroid surgical treatment.

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Index Terms

A simulation-based modeling framework to deal with clinical pathways
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Model development and analysis
    2. Simulation support systems

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1177/0037549717744888
Boudko SLeister W(2017)Treatment pathways as petri nets in patient workflow managementProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/3151759.3151778(511-518)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2017
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