A system dynamics approach to modeling cardiology patient flow in Trillium Health Care Centre.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Description: Trillium Health Care Centre is having difficulty in ensuring a smooth Cardiology patient flow throughout the hospital. While many departments ask for more resources, basing their argument on their high occupancy rates, it is not obvious where the real bottleneck in patient flow is just by looking at occupancy rates.A System Dynamics model of Cardiology patient flow is developed to determine the number of beds required in each department to ensure a smooth patient flow, assuming there is no delay due to service or staff unavailability. The results show that CSICU is a major roadblock, which is not verified by the current situation in the hospital. A sensitivity analysis reveals that the model is highly sensitive to average medically-necessary length of stays in each department. Therefore, it is argued that to get more reliable results, more accurate data on medically-necessary length of stays in each department are needed.
Notes: Adviser:  Michael Carter.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, page: 0961.

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