Understanding Emergency Care Delivery Through Computer Simulation Modeling.

ABSTRACT: In 2017, Academic Emergency Medicine convened a consensus conference entitled, "Catalyzing System Change through Health Care Simulation: Systems, Competency, and Outcomes." This article, a product of the breakout session on "understanding complex interactions through systems modeling," explores the role that computer simulation modeling can and should play in research and development of emergency care delivery systems. This article discusses areas central to the use of computer simulation modeling in emergency care research. The four central approaches to computer simulation modeling are described (Monte Carlo simulation, system dynamics modeling, discrete-event simulation, and agent-based simulation), along with problems amenable to their use and relevant examples to emergency care. Also

SUBMITTER: Laker LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5805575 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature