Publications by authors named "Dorsaf Daldoul"
Introduction: Emergency Department (ED) represents a complex system due to its limited resources and random patient arrivals. It is often saturated by a continuous flow of patients, which causes an excessive wait time and length of stay.
Aim: To evaluate the impact of the proposed combining approach (optimization with simulation) on improving the performance of an emergency department in terms of patients' length of stay and resources utilization balanced (physicians and nurses).
Article Synopsis
- The emergency department (ED) faces challenges like high patient influx leading to long wait times and inefficient resource use.
- This study aims to optimize staffing and bed allocation in the ED by using simulations and optimization to minimize patient wait times and balance resource utilization.
- The proposed solution involves a mixed-integer programming model combined with a discrete-event simulation, successfully tested with data from a Tunisian hospital, demonstrating improved performance in managing ED resources.