Title
Enhancing simulation models for emergency rooms using VBA
Abstract
Increased pressure to control costs and increased competition has prompted health care managers to look for tools to effectively operate their institutions. Managers are increasingly using simulation modeling to understand their processes. A simulation model of an ER has been enhanced with VBA routines, so that it can use real world data. The simulation model has been complemented with a series of decision-making routines. These routines use a hierarchical approach to organize the various scenarios under which the model may run and to partially reconfigure the ARENA model at run time.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1145/324898.325365
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
emergency room,simulation model,manufacturing industries,visual basic for applications,dss,vba,decision support systems,medical simulation,job shop scheduling,health care,simulation models,disaster management,visual programming,computational modeling,decision support system,simulation modeling
Health care,Simulation,Computer science,Visual Basic for Applications,Decision support system,Simulation modeling,Visual programming language,Emergency rooms
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-5780-9
5
0.85
References 
Authors
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adriana M. Alvarez150.85
Martha A. Centeno211116.76