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Designed to fail: how computer simulation can detect fundamental flaws in clinic flow.

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  • 1Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. jparks11@jhmi.edu

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Discrete-event simulation (DES) helps healthcare leaders optimize clinic operations. By modeling patient flow, DES identified bottlenecks and predicted significant reductions in patient visit times.

Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Operations Research
  • Health Systems Engineering
  • Clinical Informatics

Background:

  • Increasing hospital outpatient volumes and financial constraints necessitate efficient healthcare delivery.
  • Operational inefficiencies in clinics lead to increased patient wait times and reduced throughput.
  • Discrete-event simulation (DES) offers a powerful method for analyzing and improving complex healthcare systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the application of DES in an adult medicine clinic at an academic medical center.
  • To identify specific operational bottlenecks impacting patient flow and visit duration.
  • To evaluate the potential impact of resource allocation strategies on clinic efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Information gathering and process mapping of the adult medicine clinic workflow.

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  • Collection of relevant operational data for model calibration.
  • Development and execution of a discrete-event simulation model.
  • Analysis of simulation outputs to identify system bottlenecks and predict intervention outcomes.

    • Main Results:

    • Simulation revealed critical bottlenecks in medication administration and patient check-out processes.
    • The model predicted that optimizing resource allocation at bottleneck points could reduce mean patient visit time.
    • Predicted reduction in mean patient visit time from 124.3 minutes to 87.0 minutes.

    Conclusions:

    • Discrete-event simulation is a valuable tool for diagnosing inefficiencies in healthcare operations.
    • Simulation provides data-driven insights for redesigning clinic processes and improving patient throughput.
    • DES supports informed decision-making regarding staffing and resource allocation to enhance patient flow and reduce wait times.