How to get ONLY Female patients go to Mammo Screening in a Healthcare Facility

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Jaidit J asked Feb 22 2022 at 1:30 PM Jaidit J commented Feb 22 2022 at 10:19 PM

How to get ONLY Female patients go to Mammo Screening in a Healthcare Facility

Hello,

I'm building a HC model, and we have a Mammo Screening machine as one of the services. How can I tell FlexSim to only send Female patients to this machine? We will be having an arrival distribution for the machine. Every time a patient gets there to a get a mammogram, it will have to be a female. How can we do this? Thanks so much!

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FlexSim 21.2.4

healthcare conditional decide gender

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Answer 1 · 2022-02-22T16:13:00Z

Regan Blackett answered Feb 22 2022 at 4:13 PM Jaidit J commented Feb 22 2022 at 10:19 PM

The trick to this is first knowing the difference between Male/Female-shaped patients in such a way that we can use activities like a Decide to chose different logic for the differently shaped patients. This difference isn't baked in so we need to do a little work.

What I would do first is set up a Person Label in the People Settings section of the toolbox called "Gender" (or whatever you would like to name it).

Then in your patient flow right after the Source activity, put in a Assign Labels activity and configure it like this:

Then you can use a Decide activity using the conditional decide option like this:

If the Gender label has the text "Male" in it then you can send the patient to a connector off the Decide activity named "Male", otherwise use "Female". There are some more streamlined ways of doing this but thought it might be usefule to see it done this way in case this is a newer idea for anyone reading this.

Then you can just have your "Male" patients go to activity set that acquires one location resource, and your "Females" another. I'm also including an example model to see how this all comes together.

Hope this helps!

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Feb 22 2022 at 5:02 PM

@Regan Blackett @Jaidit J I don't think the shapeindex number is very reliable and probably depends on the number/order of other loaded shapes. I've usually done this by looking at the name of the shape to see if it has the word Male or Female in it:

shape(patient).value.includes("Male")

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Regan Blackett ♦ Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ commented · Feb 22 2022 at 5:25 PM

Cool, I didn't know about the includes() method, updated my answer to use that instead.

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Jaidit J commented · Feb 22 2022 at 8:17 PM

This helps. I think to keep it easier we are going to have males and females go to MAMMO with males dressing blue, and females dressing pink. However, I can't get my females to dress pink. everyone is dressing blue. I spent all morning and cant get this to work. Can someone review my code? Thanks so much!Tampa_Satellite_2nd_floor_JJ2.fsm

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Jaidit J commented · Feb 22 2022 at 8:33 PM

@Jaidit J You added two change shirt options. So all the mammo patients are putting on a pink shirt and then changing to a blue shirt. You just want to change the shirt once, but have the color be dependent on the gender label. So the color field should say:

patient.Gender == "M" ? Color.blue : Color.pink

If you've never used the the ternary operator (condition ? true_value : false_value) it's just a way of putting an if/else statement on a single line. It's the same as saying:

if (patient.Gender == "M")
    color = Color.blue;
else
    color = Color.pink;

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Jaidit J commented · Feb 22 2022 at 9:53 PM

thank you so much! That worked! I was able to finish the Mammo Process, but now I get a series or errors that I believe have to do with my latest changes. It is referencing the Elevator, but I don't understand what they mean. Thank you soo much for your help so far. Can you take a look? Tampa_Satellite_2nd_floor_JJ2.fsm

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ Jaidit J commented · Feb 22 2022 at 10:09 PM

@Jaidit J You added ElevatorBank1 as a member of the Locations group, but the elevator isn't a "Location" object.

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Jaidit J commented · Feb 22 2022 at 10:15 PM

I will! thnak you sooo much!!!!!

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