Hi there, I am modeling an ED. Patients arrive by ambulance and on foot and compete for the same resource: beds. I would like to model a conditional priority - if there are more than a certain number of ambulances waiting to offload their patient, then give the ambulance patients a higher priority to access the beds. Otherwise just service FIFO. How can I achieve this?
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The attached model is from the training course. The acute patients are sent to the "Ambulance" location. In the Acute patient flow, the activity representing the exam beds has custom code for the priority field. When an acute patient tries to get an exam bed, the code looks at whether the number of patients at the ambulance is greater than 2. If it is, it returns a priority of 300, if not it returns 150 (the same priority level for non-acute patients).
The only issue is that the acute patients will not go FIFO since it would be the third to arrive that would get the higher priority.
Thank you for attaching the example model. I had a question, How do you link the Source in the arrivals to the patient flow "source"? I do not see the connection in the model that shows the acute patients coming from the ambulance entrance are linked to the second patient arrival source. In my model, I want to make this arrival a bit more complex and dependent on the ESI level (ESI 1 or 2).
In the "Arrivals" tab, the "Create Patient" activity has a field where you identify the target Person Flow:
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