Paper Info
Title
Optimizing home hospital health service delivery in norway using a combined geographical information system, agent based, discrete event simulation model
Abstract
Home hospital services; provide some hospital level services at the patient's residence. The services include for example: palliative care, administering chemotherapy drugs, changing dressings and care for newborns. The rationale of the service is that by providing high quality care to patients at their homes their experience of the care is better and hence they respond to the treatment and/or recover quicker and are less likely to need to report to hospital to receive care for more serious/expensive conditions. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the home hospital service, to optimize the current configuration given existing constraints and to evaluate potential future scenarios. Using a combined discrete event simulation, agent based model and geographical information system we assess the system effects of different demand patterns, appointment scheduling algorithms (e.g. travelling salesman problem), varying levels of resource on patient outcomes and impact on hospital visits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.5555/3242181.3242317
WSC '17: Winter Simulation Conference Las Vegas Nevada December, 2017
Field
DocType
ISSN
Information system,Agent-based model,Demand patterns,Systems engineering,Computer science,Scheduling (computing),Travelling salesman problem,Health services,Residence,Operations management,Discrete event simulation
Conference
0891-7736
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-3427-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joe Viana100.68
Vigdis Margrethe Ziener200.34
Marita Sommer Holhjem300.34
Irene Gynnild Ponton400.34
Lisa Johanne Thøgersen500.34
Tone Breines Simonsen601.01