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From behavioural simulation to computer models: how simulation can be used to improve healthcare management and policy

20 October 2018

Dr Guillaume Lamé
Dr Rebecca Simmons
Healthcare systems are complex, and made up of huge numbers of diverse people and resources. This can make them challenging to understand and even more challenging to improve. For healthcare managers and policy makers, it’s often difficult to know how one decision might impact all the system’s interdependent parts....
From behavioural simulation to computer models: how simulation can be used to improve healthcare management and policy

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HSMC, University of Birmingham.
Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.
Barts Institute of Population Health Sciences.
Department of Health for Northern Ireland.
Healthcare Design Group, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre.
Health Education England.
Bradford Institute for Health Research.
PROMPT Maternity Foundation.
RAND Europe.
National Voices.
McPin Foundation.
Kings Improvement Science, Kings College London.
Florence Nightingale Foundation.
Swansea Centre for Improvement and Innovation in Health and Social Care.
LSE Health, London School of Economics.
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
Collaborative Quality Improvement.
Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research (SAPPHIRE) Group.
Clinical Operational Research Unit, University College London.
Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen.
Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
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