TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of interventions for psychiatric care
T2 - 2018 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2018
AU - Roh, Thomas
AU - Quinones-Avila, Valerie
AU - Campbell, Ronna L.
AU - Melin, Gabrielle
AU - Pasupathy, Kalyan S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Hospital-wide strategies for reducing mental health (MH) boarding in the emergency departments (ED) have focused on improving the onsite patient flow and resource management. A gap in literature is still residing on the lack of consideration for the MH transition process from the ED into external community and hospital inpatient psychiatric settings, as well as the external bed capacity limitations. Discrete event simulation was used to understand the mental health patient flow within the ED and to inpatient settings. It provided a forecast of system changes when three scenarios were tested to determine the percentage increase in beds necessary to reduce MH ED boarding time. These alternative approaches illustrate the applicability of the model as a decision support tool for evaluating solutions to MH ED boarding.
AB - Hospital-wide strategies for reducing mental health (MH) boarding in the emergency departments (ED) have focused on improving the onsite patient flow and resource management. A gap in literature is still residing on the lack of consideration for the MH transition process from the ED into external community and hospital inpatient psychiatric settings, as well as the external bed capacity limitations. Discrete event simulation was used to understand the mental health patient flow within the ED and to inpatient settings. It provided a forecast of system changes when three scenarios were tested to determine the percentage increase in beds necessary to reduce MH ED boarding time. These alternative approaches illustrate the applicability of the model as a decision support tool for evaluating solutions to MH ED boarding.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSC.2018.8632521
DO - 10.1109/WSC.2018.8632521
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85062616292
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 2507
EP - 2517
BT - WSC 2018 - 2018 Winter Simulation Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 9 December 2018 through 12 December 2018
ER -