A Strategic Planning Decision Support Methodology in Emergency Department Preparedness for Mass Casualty Events

Date of Award

Spring 2009

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering

Program/Concentration

Modeling and Simulation

Committee Director

John Sokolowski

Committee Member

Michael Gonzalez

Committee Member

Mohammed Derdjallah

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.E58 B46 2009

Abstract

This study's objective is to design a strategic planning decision support methodology to improve Emergency Department (ED) preparedness for Mass Casualty Events (MCEs). This effort will enable hospital and medical strategic planners to evaluate alternatives which improve ED capacity. This comparative analysis illuminates the relative performance of alternatives involving three improvement scenarios for an ED, involving various increases in trauma bay, examination room, radiology, surgery, and recovery/observation study capacities. To illustrate this decision methodology, a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) was implemented in Arena, and used a mixture of Subject Matter Expert (SME) estimates and appropriate notional data. The design of experiments includes an evaluation of the alternatives against 12 levels of MCE casualty levels.

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DOI

10.25777/v4xa-wy72

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