Simulation modeling to assess performance of integrated healthcare systems: Literature review to characterize the field and visual aid to guide model selection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The guiding principle of many health care reforms is to overcome fragmentation of service delivery and work towards integrated healthcare systems. Even though the value of integration is well recognized, capturing its drivers and its impact as part of health system performance assessment is challenging. The main reason is that current assessment tools only insufficiently capture the complexity of integrated systems, resulting in poor impact estimations of the actions taken towards the 'Triple Aim'. We describe the unique nature of simulation modeling to consider key health reform aspects: system complexity, optimization of actions, and long-term assessments.

Research question

How can the use and uptake of simulation models be characterized in the field of performa

SUBMITTER: Larrain N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8270171 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature