Managing hospital visitor admission during Covid-19: A discrete-event simulation by the data of a German University Hospital
Managing hospital visitor admission during Covid-19: A discrete-event simulation by the data of a German University Hospital
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2022-01-04
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Bartenschlager, Christina
Frey, Ramona
Freitag, Marie
Classen, Johanna-Maria
Messmann, Helmut
Brunner, Jens O.
Temizel, Selin
Römmele, Christoph
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The Corona pandemic and the associated need for visitor restrictions have defined an entirely new management task in hospitals: The hospital visitor management. The admission process of hospital visitors and the implementation of associated infection-prevention strategies such as the delivery of face masks thereby pose major challenges. In this work, we evaluate both implemented and planned admission processes in a German University Hospital based on a discrete-event simulation model and provide distinct recommendations for hospital visitor management with special consideration of digitalization, antigen testing, waiting times, space and staff utilization. We find the extraordinary potential of digitalization with a reduction of visitor waiting and service times of up to 90 percent, the significant burden for personnel and room capacity, in terms of antigen testing, especially, and the need for visitor restrictions in terms of a maximum number of visitors per inpatient.
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Decision Support for Healthcare Processes and Services,
covid-19,
discrete-event simulation,
hospital visitor admission
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9 pages
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Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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