Health Care Evaluation Using Computer Simulation[electronic resource] :Concepts, Methods, and Applications / by Boris Sobolev, Victor Sanchez, Lisa Kuramoto.
Part I. Care processes -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Different views of care process -- Chapter 3. Taxonomy of peri-operative activities -- Chapter 4. UML diagrams for describing care processes -- Part II. Simulation Methods -- Chapter 5. Review of approaches to simulation in healthcare -- Chapter 6. Discrete-event simulation of patient flow -- Part III. Planning Experiment -- Chapter 7. Framework of intervention study -- Chapter 8. Design of a simulation study -- Chapter 9. Performance measures at the cluster level -- Chapter 10. Performance measures at the patient level -- Part IV. Evaluation Using Simulation Experiments -- Chapter 11. Reporting results of a simulation study -- Chapter 12. Evaluation at the cluster level -- Chapter 13. Evaluation at the patient level -- Part V. Case Studies -- Chapter 14. The simulation model -- Chapter 15. Pooled appointment lists -- Chapter 16. Shortest appointment list -- Chapter 17. Pre-booking elective cases -- Chapter 18. Pre-surgical screening -- Chapter 19. Anesthesiology consultations -- Chapter 20. Managing ICU beds -- Chapter 21. Discharge planning.