Procedia Computer Science 13th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, EUSPN / The 12th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare, ICTH 2022 / Affiliated Workshops. 210:133-140

Engineering and Technology, Civil Engineering, Other Civil Engineering, Teknik, Samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Annan samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Medical and Health Sciences, Other Medical and Health Sciences, Other Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere specified, Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Annan medicin och hälsovetenskap, Övrig annan medicin och hälsovetenskap

Constructing simulation models can be a complex and time-consuming task, in particular if the models are constructed from scratch or if a general-purpose simulation modeling tool is used. In this paper, we propose a model construction framework, which aims to simplify the process of constructing discrete event simulation models for emergency medical service (EMS) policy analysis. The main building blocks used in the framework are a set of general activities that can be used to represent different EMS care chains modeled as flowcharts. The framework allows to build models only by specifying input data, including demographic and statistical data, and providing a care chain of activities and decisions. In a case study, we evaluated the framework by using it to construct a model for the simulation of the EMS activities related to acute stroke. Our evaluation shows that the predefined activities included in the framework are sufficient to build a simulation model for the rather complex case of acute stroke.