Hi
I would like to know is there a way to define certain day such as certain Monday of a month in a one month run simulation in HC. During the holiday, all resources and locations should be scheduled down.
Thanks
David
I've always been taught that it is better to split the simulation study into separate models. One that studies what happens with "holiday" patient volumes, and one that studies what happens with "typical" patient volumes. I even think it is wise to concentrate a model on a specific day of the week, so I will often use a "Monday" model to study what happens on a Monday, a "Tuesday" model to study what happens on a Tuesday, etc.. If you put too many ingredients in the soup, it's hard to know what to call it. Is it chicken soup or vegetable soup if you have both chicken and vegetables in the soup?? ;-)
The schedule is set to be a Mon-Sun setup, but if you wanted to simulate a holiday or long weekend, instead you could use the Interrupt tool. Usually these times on the interrupts table are based on a random distribution, but you could have a set time and duration of the "interrupt" to simulate a holiday. You'd just need to know when that holiday would start in time units, and how many time units it would last. But would this option work?
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