Simulation Modeling for Psychiatric Service Planning: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health service managers must take into account multiple factors when making decisions about the best way to deliver care to clients across increasingly larger service areas. This task is made more difficult by the lack of evidence and tools historically available to inform these decisions. In recent decades, the increasing availability of epidemiological and service use data for mental illness has solved the problem of evidence, but there still exists a challenge to make these data easily accessible and understandable for managers.

Objective

This study aims to develop a simulation modeling tool to allow managers to explore various service configurations in virtual reality, enabling predictions to be made about the cost and quality of care.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Long KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6301811 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature