Modelling health care processes with SHARE.
This paper describes the "SHARE" workframe, designed to provide a comprehensive environment for modeling and simulating health care processes. The objects defined within SHARE are Actors, subdivided in Clients and Resources, and Elementary Operations. Graphical tools allow to build processes from these objects, and to specify their relationships. Various strategies based on either clinical or managerial changes may be investigated. Summary information on the utilization of all actors, on waiting times and goodness of execution may be displayed after a simulation. Better description of processes, and their study a priori will improve reliability, quality of care and satisfaction of patients.
Boëlle
P Y
PY
INSERM U444, ISARS, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris, France. boelle@b3e.jussieu.fr
Vibert
J F
JF
Garnerin
P
P
Valleron
A J
AJ
D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests