An analysis of the academic literature on simulation and modelling in health care
An analysis of the academic literature on simulation and modelling in health care
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DOI：
10.1057/jos.2009.10
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发表时间：
2009-09-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Pitt, M.
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作者：
Brailsford, S. C.;Harper, P. R.;Pitt, M.
本文描述了一种对医疗保健模拟和建模研究文献进行分类的多维方法。该研究的目的是分析一系列运筹学建模方法在医疗保健中的使用相对频率，以及具体应用领域和实施水平。鉴于医疗保健建模文献数量庞大，采用了一种新颖的综述方法，其概念类似于分层抽样方法。研究结果为许多应用领域的活动水平提供了新的见解，突出了重要的关系，并指出了文献中遗漏和忽视的关键领域。此外，本文提出的方法提供了一种系统的通用方法，可扩展到其他应用领域以及医疗保健建模中的其他类型信息源。
This article describes a multi-dimensional approach to the classification of the research literature on simulation and modelling in health care. The aim of the study was to analyse the relative frequency of use of a range of operational research modelling approaches in health care, along with the specific domains of application and the level of implementation. Given the vast scale of the health care modelling literature, a novel review methodology was adopted, similar in concept to the approach of stratified sampling. The results provide new insights into the level of activity across many areas of application, highlighting important relationships and pointing to key areas of omission and neglect in the literature. In addition, the approach presented in this article provides a systematic and generic methodology that can be extended to other application domains as well as other types of information source in health-care modelling.