Purpose: Providing timely access is an important measure of patient satisfaction in specialty care clinics such as cancer centers. Excessive wait time to see oncologist very critical for patients they often benefit from starting the treatment process soon possible. This paper addresses capacity planning both new and returning clinics. research motivated by a center Texas that seeks improve its ...

Hospital overcrowding is a major problem for healthcare systems around the globe. In order to better estimate future demands and adequate resources coping with such demands, statistical computerised modelling can be applied. This then allow administrators decision makers quantify impacts of various “what-if” scenarios on hospital performance measures. paper investigates application Discrete Eve...

Hospital congestion and the many associated healthcare delivery cost and quality issues are caused or exacerbated by decisions made without understanding system-level patient flow. Without patient flow models, decisions that affect the entire system are made considering only the effect on a small subsection of the system. This paper presents a flexible simulation framework as a powerful tool fo...

The paper highlights the need for, and the benefits of using, simulation during the development and implementation of modern healthcare systems. Whilst healthcare establishments already utilise information systems in a wide variety of disciplines, the majority of systems are currently isolated, with patient records largely based upon manual methods. As such, it is envisaged that the establishme...

maintaining dignity and respect is among patients’ most fundamental rights. the importance of patient dignity, the status quo, patients’ needs, and a shortage of survey studies in this area were the underlying incentives for conducting this study. this was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which data were collected through patient dignity inventory (pdi). the questionnaire was completed by...

Over the last 30 years, the medical profession has been following in the foot steps of the aviation industry by developing equipment and teaching styles to recreate, or simulate, patient scenarios for educational purposes. One of the first mannequins in simulation education was the cardiopulmonary resuscitation mannequin, used with nurses and medical professionals for basic life support trainin...

Continuous quality improvement is an accepted mandate in healthcare services. The delivery of the best, evidence based quality of care ultimately depends on the competences of practitioners as well as the system that supports their work. Medical education has been increasingly called upon to insure providers possess the skills and understanding necessary to fulfill the quality mission. Patient ...