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ACM TOMACS Special Issue: Healthcare Simulation
Guest Editors: Tillal Eldabi and Terry Young
Deadline May 31, 2009
Healthcare simulation has a long and distinguished history and has
contributed a corpus of academic literature amounting to several hundred
thousand papers growing at a few tens of papers per day. Despite this,
the sector suffers from a lack of evidence of success. However, lately
there has been a rise in demand for healthcare simulation, as seen by
the many healthcare tracks at conferences, the increased interest in
simulation and modeling shown by research funding organizations, and the
number of special issues on healthcare in prominent journals. From a
practitioner’s perspective, the need to manage care and improve services
against higher expectations coupled with shortened deadlines, is driving
the search for appropriate modeling methods.
This special issue will be dedicated to papers with a strong application
narrative combined with evidence of implementation, while encouraging
methodological development within this context. Examples of high-
quality simulation modeling and analysis as part of the decision-making
process will be especially sought after. The goal will be to enable
communities of research and superior practice to share their findings,
and to nucleate a new understanding that moves from demonstration of
techniques to routine uptake. The editors wish to solicit papers on
healthcare simulation, modeling and practice, including (but not limited
to):
Methods
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1. Hybrid methods (e.g. systems dynamics combined with discrete-event
simulation);
2. New methods or new ways of using existing methods;
3. Methods for data – data cleansing, pre-processing, data-lite
approaches to modeling;
4. Practical problem structuring methods;
5. Knowledge-, and information-based approaches.
Applications
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1. End-to-end pathway management;
2. Service design and development;
3. Modeling in conjunction with improvement methods (e.g. Lean, Six
Sigma, etc);
4. Strategy, planning and policy;
5. Community provision;
6. Public health and epidemiology;
7. Choice, scheduling, and economic benefits;
8. Training applications.
Any novel paper from a specialist in simulation modeling and analysis,
or healthcare practitioner, is eligible for submission to this special
issue. Papers to be submitted by May 31, 2009 through the ACM TOMACS WWW
site, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tomacs.
Information about the journal and submission instructions available at http://www.linklings.net/tomacs/instructions.html
For further information, please contact the Guest Editors: Tillal Eldabi ([log in to unmask]) or Terry Young ([log in to unmask])
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