Liu Shiyong, Li Yan, Triantis Konstantinos P, Xue Hong, Wang Youfa
Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Department of Population Health Science and Policy, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
MDM Policy Pract. 2020 Jun 6;5(1):2381468320915242. doi: 10.1177/2381468320915242. eCollection 2020 Jan-Jun.
This study systematically examines the diffusion of the discrete event simulation (DES) approach in health services and health care management by examining relevant factors such as research areas, channels with the objective of promoting the application of DES in the health field. We examined 483 journal papers referencing this approach that were published in 230 journals during 1981 to 2014. The application of DES has extended from health service operational research evaluation to the assessment of interventions in diverse health arenas. The increase in the number of adopters (paper authors) of DES and the increase in number of related channels (journals publishing DES-related articles) are highly correlated, which suggests an increase of DES-related publications in health research. The same conclusion is reached, that is, an increased diffusion of DES in health research, when we focus on the temporal trends of the channels and adopters. The applications of DES in health research cover 22 major areas based on our categorization. The expansion in the health areas also suggests to a certain extent the rapid diffusion of DES in health research.
本研究通过考察研究领域、渠道等相关因素，系统地审视了离散事件模拟（DES）方法在卫生服务和医疗保健管理中的传播情况，旨在促进DES在卫生领域的应用。我们查阅了1981年至2014年期间在230种期刊上发表的483篇引用该方法的期刊论文。DES的应用已从卫生服务运筹学评估扩展到对不同卫生领域干预措施的评估。DES采用者（论文作者）数量的增加与相关渠道（发表DES相关文章的期刊）数量的增加高度相关，这表明卫生研究中DES相关出版物有所增加。当我们关注渠道和采用者的时间趋势时，也得出了相同的结论，即DES在卫生研究中的传播有所增加。根据我们的分类，DES在卫生研究中的应用涵盖22个主要领域。卫生领域的扩展在一定程度上也表明了DES在卫生研究中的迅速传播。
