Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 116-125 , August 2008

Forecasting Emergency Department Crowding: A Discrete Event Simulation

  • Nathan R. Hoot, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Nathan R. Hoot, PhD, 400 Eskind Biomedical Library, 2209 Garland Avenue, Nashville, TN 37232; 615-936-3720, fax 615-936-1427
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  • Larry J. LeBlanc, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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  • Ian Jones, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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  • Scott R. Levin, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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  • Chuan Zhou, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
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  • Cynthia S. Gadd, PhD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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  • Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Received 21 June 2007 ,Revised 21 September 2007 ,Accepted 3 December 2007.

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 Supervising editor: David J. Magid, MD, MPHAuthor contributions: NH and DA conceived the study. All authors contributed substantially to the study design. IJ and DA obtained research funding. NH implemented the software and collected the data. NH and CZ performed the statistical analysis. NH drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. NH takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that may create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Dr. Hoot was supported by the National Library of Medicine grant LM07450-02 and National Institute of General Medical Studies grant T32 GM07347. The research was also supported by the National Library of Medicine grant R21 LM009002-01. This project is an academic endeavor. It was supported by federal funding, as noted above, and there was no corporate funding. There are no current plans to commercialize this research that would cause any conflicts of interest.Publication dates: Available online April 30, 2008.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(07)01860-4

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.12.011

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 116-125 , August 2008

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