: Patient mobility is considered one of the main concerns for policy-makers as it impacts financial sustainability of regional health systems due to the high percentage of patients accessing care services in other regions. For a better understanding of this phenomenon, it is necessary to define a behavioral model able to represent the patient-system interaction. In this paper we adopted the Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) approach with the aim of simulating patient flow across regions and determining which are the main factors influencing it. This may provide a new insight for policy makers to capture which are the main factors influencing mobility and actions that may contribute to contain this phenomenon.
Agent Based Modelling for Simulating the Interregional Patient Mobility in Italy / Pecoraro, Fabrizio; Accordino, Filippo; Cecconi, Federico; Paolucci, Mario. - 302:(2023), pp. 297-301. (Intervento presentato al convegno 33rd Medical Informatics Europe Conference tenutosi a Gothenburg) [10.3233/SHTI230122].
Agent Based Modelling for Simulating the Interregional Patient Mobility in Italy
Filippo Accordino;
2023
Abstract
: Patient mobility is considered one of the main concerns for policy-makers as it impacts financial sustainability of regional health systems due to the high percentage of patients accessing care services in other regions. For a better understanding of this phenomenon, it is necessary to define a behavioral model able to represent the patient-system interaction. In this paper we adopted the Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) approach with the aim of simulating patient flow across regions and determining which are the main factors influencing it. This may provide a new insight for policy makers to capture which are the main factors influencing mobility and actions that may contribute to contain this phenomenon.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
