Title :
Providence Breast Health Center Throughput
Author :
Senkandwa, Jemba
Author_Institution :
Providence Health Syst., Burbank
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Providence Health Breast Center in partnership with Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center focuses on diagnosing and treating breast cancer. Discrete Event Simulation modeling was used to identify key variables that would increase throughput.
Keywords :
cancer; discrete event simulation; health care; medical computing; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; breast cancer diagnosis; breast cancer treatment; discrete event simulation; health center throughput; Breast cancer; Discrete event simulation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical treatment; Throughput;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2007 Winter
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1306-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1306-5
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2007.4419909