An Exploratory Study of Applying Discrete Event System Simulation on Patient Treatment Process Arrangement by the Physical Therapists

• Main Authors: PingPing Cai, 蔡萍萍
• Other Authors: Hen-yi Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/darsr4

碩士 === 元智大學 === 工業工程與管理學系 === 105 === In recent years, the demand of the rehabilitation health care is constantly increasing. The physical therapists, while still focus on the treatment of patients, face challenges in equipment scheduling arrangements to avoid patient waiting and the possible following decline in the satisfaction of the care services. Manufacturing already used discrete event system simulations to maximize productivity in the manufacturing process. If this similar concept is applied to the rehabilitation division so that the physical therapists, through learning the application of the simulation system, which may help to effectively improve the congestion situation of the rehabilitation rooms. However, the awareness and the acceptance of the computer simulation by the physical therapists was still a seldom-mentioned problem. In this study, discrete event system simulation was used to simulate the rehabilitation division, a user-friendly user interface is provided to allow the interaction between the simulation model and physical therapists. Randomly selected physical therapists from Taoyuan city are trained to use this simulation model. Questionnaire are distributed to them after training to assess the degree of awareness of the physical therapists, the degree of acceptance and the effectiveness of learning simulation system. Keywords: Discrete event system simulations, FlexSim, Physical therapists, Rehabilitation, Questionnaire