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Simulation of the Emergency Department Management during the Pandemic

Authors:
Ramona Galeano
Dolores Rexachs
Alvaro Wong
Eva Bruballa
Cynthia Villalba
Diego Galeano
Emilio Luque

Keywords: simulation; agent-based model; COVID-19; management

Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disasters worldwide, overwhelming public health systems and generating actions such as movement restrictions and containment orders. It has strained public health systems and exposed the healthcare needs and gaps for marginalized and vulnerable populations. Modeling and simulation can help make a physical or logical representation of a system to generate data and determine decisions or predict a given system or problem. In this paper, we present an adaptation of our previous work on a simulation of an agent-based model to simulate an emergency department for a different hospital in a pandemic situation; we compare some of the results we obtained from the simulations with reality to help the management of the emergency department.

Pages: 80 to 90

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2023. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2023

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ISSN: 1942-261x