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  • Healthcare systems modeling
  • Operations research
  • Computational social science

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  • Real-world healthcare services exhibit self-organized regularities in patient arrivals and wait times.
  • Characterizing these patterns requires understanding underlying patient and hospital behaviors and impact factors.
  • Existing models often lack the granularity to capture these complex interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To model and simulate cardiac surgery services in Ontario, Canada.
  • To investigate how individual behaviors (patients, hospitals) and key factors (accessibility, resources, wait times) influence service dynamics.
  • To identify the mechanisms behind emergent regularities in patient arrivals and wait times.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) methodology for modeling and simulation.
  • Developed an AOC-based cardiac surgery service (AOC-CSS) model.
  • Experimented with the AOC-CSS model to observe emergent patterns.

Main Results:

  • Simulation results replicated real-world self-organized regularities in patient arrivals and wait times.
  • Patient hospital-selection behaviors were identified as a significant factor.
  • Hospital service-adjustment behaviors and their interaction via wait times also influenced emergent patterns.

Conclusions:

  • Patient and hospital behaviors, along with their interactions, can explain the self-organized regularities observed in cardiac surgery wait times.
  • The AOC-CSS model provides a valuable tool for understanding complex healthcare system dynamics.
  • Findings suggest potential avenues for optimizing healthcare service delivery and reducing wait times.