Análisis del flujo de pacientes utilizando la simulación discreta en una unidad de quimioterapia de una organización sin ánimo de lucro.

Martínez, H.; Duarte, E.

Discrete simulation is a tool that allows having an overview of the system and easy traceability of the variables of interest. In this article, a representation of a chemotherapy unit is made in order to improve the use of available resources in a discrete simulation model that represents the system determined by its key variables such as: arrival of patients, length of stay, required personnel and associated operations. A patient segmentation methodology is proposed based on infusion times according to protocols. Subsequently, various scenarios are proposed within two experiments, preserving demand as a fundamental parameter, and the variable resource is modified in order to attend to as many patients as possible. Finally, the study allowed finding an adequate combination of resources (combination of oncology nurses and nursing assistants) to obtain the desired reduction in the length of stay.

DISCRETE event simulation; ONCOLOGY nursing; SIMULATION methods & models; CANCER chemotherapy; NURSES

Inventum. Ingenieria, Tecnologia e Investigacion, 2020, Vol 15, Issue 29, p23

1909-2520

Academic Journal

10.26620/uniminuto.inventum.15.29.2020.23-36