Paper Info
Title
DGHPSIM:: Generic simulation of hospital performance
Abstract
The British National Health Service (NHS) has a performance management framework that aims to guarantee short waiting times for patients by including mandatory targets for hospitals. DGHPSim is a suite of four components that simulates the activities of an NHS general hospital to show the effect of different policies on waiting times in these hospitals. DGHPSim has a generic structure that is used to simulate a particular hospital by employing data appropriate to that hospital from available data sets. Two of the components of DGHPSim, the accident and emergency simulator and the outpatient simulator, may be used independently as stand-alone simulators of these hospital functions. The DGHPSim suite incorporates a novel way of simulating the multitasking behavior of clinicians and uses transition matrices, extracted from standard datasets, to represent the states through which patients pass and the wards in which they may be treated. As a whole, the DGHPSim suite may be used to investigate improvement options before their implementation or to investigate how a hospital has improved its performance. We show how DGHPSim is used to investigate reported performance improvements in an English general hospital.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2000494.2000496
ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul.
Keywords
Field
DocType
performance improvement,hospital function,performance management framework,emergency simulator,particular hospital,available data set,english general hospital,hospital performance,generic simulation,nhs general hospital,outpatient simulator,dghpsim suite,performance management
Mathematical optimization,Data set,Suite,Computer science,Simulation,Operations research,National health service,Performance management,Human multitasking
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
4
1049-3301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.58
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Murat M. Gunal115010.87
Michael Pidd253641.15