How to use labels in appointment table to determine patient resources?

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Lynn T2 asked Feb 10, '22 Lynn T2 commented Feb 11, '22

How to use labels in appointment table to determine patient resources?

Hello,

I am working on a model where the patient checks in, is brought back to pre-op, then goes to a specific procedure room with a specific procedure MD, and then is taken to post-op.

I want to be able to indicate the specific procedure room and procedure MD for each patient in my arrivals table. However, when I try to reference that value when acquiring the procedure room and the procedure MD, my model gives me an error. Note: The procedure MD will service the same room all day, so Procedure Room 1 will always be staffed by procedure MD 1, etc.

Is there a way to do this? To indicate the resources needed in the appointment table and then reference those when acquiring those specific resources?

I knew how to do this in the previous version, so I am hopeful I am overlooking something simple. I have highlighted the acquire process steps in the attached model in green. Currently, the model only has 2 patients coming in, but the final model will have quite a few more pre-op bays, procedure rooms, and post-op bays, and gurneys.

Thank you,

Lynn

Appointment Table Labels.fsm

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FlexSim 21.2.2

labels acquire resource appointment table

appointment-table-labels.fsm (124.2 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2022-02-10T23:13:25Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Feb 10, '22 Lynn T2 commented Feb 11, '22

The ProcRoom label that you're referencing in the Procedure Rooms resource is stored on the patient and not on the token, so you need to change it from token.ProcRoom to patient.ProcRoom:

One other thing you might consider, instead of using the By Case option you could just pass the room number into the ProcedureRooms group to get a specific room:

Group("ProcedureRooms")[patient.ProcRoom]

So if the patient's ProcRoom label were 2, then you'd get the 2nd room listed in the ProcedureRooms group.

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Regan Blackett ♦ commented · Feb 10, 2022 at 11:19 PM

Just for fun to add an alternative, you could also make your labels in the appointment table a "Pointer" type from the Plus-sign menu and use the sampler on the table cell to directly reference the objects in the model like this:

Then when you go to acquire them, you can reference the label in the location/staff fields like this:

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Lynn T2 Regan Blackett ♦ commented · Feb 11, 2022 at 03:20 PM

Thank you, Regan! I have not used this before, but I think I am going to try it out on my next model. I appreciate your response!

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Lynn T2 commented · Feb 11, 2022 at 03:19 PM

Thank you, Matthew! This was extremely helpful and solved my issue -- I appreciate it.

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