Time Table for Resource Only Apply to Subset of Patients?

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Ashlee W asked Oct 12, '22 Jeanette F commented Oct 20, '22

Time Table for Resource Only Apply to Subset of Patients?

Hi There,

I am simulating a periop unit and I only wait ORs and inpatient beds to be available 24/7 for unscheduled/emergency patients but only on weekdays from 8-6 for patients who are scheduled/non-emergent.

Is there an "easy" way to do this? I am thinking a time table will do the trick but I need it to only apply to the non-emergent sub set of patients in the model.

Thanks!

Ashlee

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FlexSim 22.2.1

time table resources healthcare people patient subset

Answer 1 · 2022-10-16T03:31:19Z

Jeanette F answered Oct 16, '22 Jeanette F commented Oct 20, '22

Hello @Ashlee W,

Jonah's option does work for sorting patients. I think his option would work well if you have emergent and nonemergent arriving at the same acquire location activity. I think the method you mentioned works well when the flow is already split, so I created an example that used the time table like you described.

The time table sets a label called nonemergent to 0 or 1. 1 means nonemergent patients are allowed to acquire the ORs. 0 means they cannot. The process flows I use are identical except in the nonemergent flow the Locations resource has a filter. For this filter to be possible you have to add the label to the Locations List.

For the Time Table I assumed that when the down function is executed that is when the NonEmergent label should be set to 0 and the Resume Function is when the Nonemergent label is set to 1. I also had to add a reevaluate back orders command. This is for any nonemergent patient already waiting for the OR.

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Ashlee W commented · Oct 19, 2022 at 01:24 PM

Hi Jeanette,

Thank you so much for your help. I have implemented this method and it works to bring the beds down but patients are now not moving into the beds when the beds are back up... any ideas on what might be causing this? I called my bed label "ScheduledAllowed".

Thanks,
Ashlee

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Ashlee W Ashlee W commented · Oct 19, 2022 at 01:26 PM

The time table is called "Time Table 1", ignore the disabled one.

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Jeanette F ♦♦ Ashlee W commented · Oct 20, 2022 at 08:39 PM

This was answered on the following post

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Answer 2 · 2022-10-13T23:10:51Z

Jonah K answered Oct 13, '22

Here is a very simple model that demonstrates how you can use the "Decide" activity to sort patients. The sorting is dependent upon:

1) A label called "Emergency" and

2) The time of day

This model will remove patients if their label Emergency==0 and the Model.time is after 10 AM (7200 sec). Using this same pattern you can organize your patients so Emergency patients are always accepted, and non-emergent patients are rejected after hours.

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