Discrete-event simulation for outpatient flow and emergency patient arrival in a haemodialysis unit
Emergency cases among dialysis patients are uncertain and if these patients failed to obtain treatment within allocated treatment, it might risk their health conditions. In relation to that, we would like to accommodate outpatients together with the emergency patients in patient scheduling problem. Discrete-event simulation is used to estimate the outpatients flow based on the mean arrival rate, $\lambda$. A modified integer linear programming model is presented in this paper which highlighted on the patients' arrival time, patients' departure time and bed availabili