Profiling Literature in Healthcare Simulation

: The publications that relate to the application of simulation to healthcare have steadily increased over the years. These publications are scattered amongst various journals that belong to several subject categories, including Operational Research, Health Economics and Pharmacokinetics. The simulation techniques that are applied to the study of healthcare problems are also varied. The aim of this study is to present a methodology for profiling literature in healthcare simulation. In our methodology, we have considered papers on healthcare that have been published between 1970 and 2007 in journals with impact factors that belonging to various subject categories reporting on the application of four simulation techniques, namely, Monte Carlo Simulation, Discrete-Event Simulation, System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation. The methodology has the following objectives: (a) to categorise the papers under the different simulation techniques and identify the healthcare problems that each te...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIMULATION
• Authors: Navonil Mustafee, Korina Katsaliaki, Simon J. E. Taylor
• Keywords: Healthcare, Methodology, Simulation, SIMULATION 2010, Software Engineering