Simulation – A Tutorial on Simulation in Healthcare: Applications and Issues 2
uSimulation application in healthcare can be classified into four categories
•Public policy
•Patient treatment process
•Capital expenditure requirements
•Provider operating policies
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Public policy applications have to do with evaluating strategies for delivering health care that are implemented in state or national policies. Example – a simulation model for projecting the number of physicians, nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants in Indiana, from 1975 to 2000 as well as the demand for primary health care.
Example – a family therapy process called Brief Systems Family Therapy (BSFT). Six checkpoints in this process were specified; problem formation, solution formation, enactment formation, hypothesis formation, task intervention formation and follow-up.

Determining the level of capital expenditure for equipment needed to effectively provide patient care is an important application area for simulation in health care delivery. Example – a simulator for helping to establish the resource requirements of a small animal veterinary practice

There are many applications of simulation to operational policies of health care providers. Example – an application of simulation to emergency room operating procedures. At issue was the excessive length of time non-urgent patients waited for care in an emergency room at a non-profit hospital.

(Standridge, 1999)