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Improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in South African Public Hospitals
Thesis (B Eng. (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
2015
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| author | Bloem, Connie |
| author2 | Joubert, Johan W. |
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/45144 Improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in South African Public Hospitals Bloem, Connie Joubert, Johan W. University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering) Simulation modelling, Agent based simulation modelling, Agent based modelling, Mamelodi hospital, Bed allocation, Hospital bed allocation, Bed management, Bed management problem, Patients, Bed allocation rules, South African public hospitals, Hospitals, Bed utilisation. Thesis (B Eng. (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2012. South African public hospitals have a shortage of beds and struggle to allocate patients to beds and keep track thereof. This causes inefficient utilisation of limited bed capacity. This report addresses this problem by first testing individual bed allocation rules using an agent based simulation to establish what the influence of individual allocation rules are on the system. The results of the rule based models are then used to create three rule sets that are tested using agent based simulation modelling. The results are compared to the current system used within Mamelodi Hospital. All rule sets perform better than the current system. By simply tracking the available beds an additional 20% capacity utilisation is achieved. 2015-05-13T07:49:30Z 2015-05-13T07:49:30Z 2014-11-04 2015-05-13 Mini Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45144 en en Copyright: University of Pretoria PDF application/pdf University of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering |
| spellingShingle | Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering) Simulation modelling, Agent based simulation modelling, Agent based modelling, Mamelodi hospital, Bed allocation, Hospital bed allocation, Bed management, Bed management problem, Patients, Bed allocation rules, South African public hospitals, Hospitals, Bed utilisation. Bloem, Connie Improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in South African Public Hospitals |
| title | Improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in South African Public Hospitals |
| title_full | Improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in South African Public Hospitals |
| title_fullStr | Improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in South African Public Hospitals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in South African Public Hospitals |
| title_short | Improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in South African Public Hospitals |
| title_sort | improving hospital bed utilisation through simulation and optimisation in south african public hospitals |
| topic | Mini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering) Simulation modelling, Agent based simulation modelling, Agent based modelling, Mamelodi hospital, Bed allocation, Hospital bed allocation, Bed management, Bed management problem, Patients, Bed allocation rules, South African public hospitals, Hospitals, Bed utilisation. |
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