I am trying to create a census graph based on Acuity, not PCI. However, it seems that the software just sums up the numbers and doesn't give me a true census of how many patients are in the model for each acuity. Any advice?
Display Census by Acuity
FlexSim HC 5.0.12
I attached my model to see if that would help. I think the issue might be is that I change the acuity as the go through the model. I am using acuity to measure how many visits they have had. This specifically effects PCI 1 because they will return for multiple visits and I want to get a census of per week how many PCI 1 are getting there initial appointment. I was hoping to create a census graph similar to what I have on my Dashboard1 in the "Visit" Location only for Patients who have an Acuity of 1 to symbolize its there first visit.
Yes, the issue here is that you're changing the values of the labels you're filtering on.
Attached is an example model where I have a census widget with custom sample sets for each acuity.
If however I add an On Entry trigger to the waiting room to set the acuity of all entering patients to 2, this happens:
Why?
The Model Census widget just displays data already collected by the model and applies filters to the data based on the sample sets you choose. Model census information is recorded whenever a patient enters or exits the model. It records who the patient was, his current labels, and whether he entered or exited. For example, the census data might look like:
| Patient | Acuity | Entering |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
So the Census widget will say the current census is 2 since 4 people entered and 2 left. If you add a sample set to only look at Acuity 2 patients the census will say 1 since 2 entered and 1 left.
If I change the acuity of all patients to 2 during the model the data looks like this:
| Patient | Acuity | Entering |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
Now with the sample set the census widget will say 0 since 2 acuity 2 patients entered and 2 left.
If you really want to display the current number of acuity 2 patients in the model, you'll need to keep track of that yourself. You can add global variables and increment/decrement them when you change acuity or you might be able to set up a custom data collector. However, there's nothing out of the box that will do this for you.
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