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Table 4 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for abstracts

From: A review on the relation between simulation and improvement in hospitals

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

• The paper discusses an application of simulation

• The discussed simulation model is stochastic. The current state does not determine the next state.

• Goal of the simulation is to improve patient flow/process design or efficiency and resource capacity planning of primary processes (= processes related to patient care)

• The simulation is concerned with processes within hospitals

• Other models than simulation

• Deterministic simulation models

• Applications outside the hospital

• Simulations concerning processes in hospital systems in which multiple hospitals collaborate

• Simulation models that support medical decision-making (related to guidelines), or preventing errors related to the treatment

• No surveys and reviews

• No staff rostering

• Papers published before 1997

Papers written in other languages than English