An agent-based decision support model for assessment of stroke patient transport policies: The case of choosing hospital for diagnosis
2019 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
The Southern Swedish hospital region is the home of nearly 2 million people, in
which 5,684 individuals were diagnosed by stroke during 2016, according to
statistics from the hospitals in the region. With this large number of
stroke-diagnosed patients across the region, an effective stroke transport policy is
inevitably important to provide fast treatment for these patients.
In this thesis, we developed an agent-based simulation model for evaluating the
performance of transport logistics policies. We followed the Design Science
Research methodology in order to design and develop the model. Using the model,
we assessed two transport logistics policies for the Southern Swedish hospital
region. We used a synthetic set of stroke patients, which we generated using Monte
carlo simulation, for the processes of developing the model and assessing our two
stroke transport logistics policies.
We argue that the assessment of transport logistics policies is important for the
ability to improve the planning process, for example, when choosing hospital for
diagnosis of patients showing stroke symptoms. The optimization of the stroke
logistics process aims to ensure the quality and operational efficiency of the hospital
sector as well as to increase the chance of survival of stroke patients.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Malmö universitet/Teknik och samhälle , 2019. , p. 60
Keywords [en]
Agent-based model, Discrete-event simulation, Stroke logistics, Transport logistics policies
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20298Local ID: 27810OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-20298DiVA, id: diva2:1480172
Educational program
TS Computer Science, Master Programme
Supervisors
Examiners
2020-10-272020-10-27Bibliographically approved