A Simulation Modeling Approach to Improve Waiting Time for Outpatients of Hospital Emergency Department

Abstract

Analysis and optimum decision making in the emergency department of the hospital due to the variety of probabilistic events is a vital complex task. The most important task of a hospital emergency care is planning to provide patients with quick services and reducing their waiting time. The present research focused on such context and a computer simulation model presented based on surveying a flow of 357 patients. The validity of the simulation model examined by t student hypothesis testing and through scenario analysis, reduction of patient waiting time and increasing the human resource productivity followed to promote quality level of outpatients.