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Swamping Insight - Healthcare Application area: Service Capacity Simulation method: System Dynamics Swamping InsightThis is a common system structure of an upstream service handing over to a downstream service that includes return or relapse back to the upstream service. This simulation explores the unintended effects of increasing upstream capacity and swamping downstream capacity. An upstream service responds to an increased load by increasing its capacity. This improved throughput from the upstream service swamps the downstream service. In addition, the increase in the relapse rate due to insufficient downstream capacity eventually returns to swamp upstream capacity as well. In the model we have the options to continually change upstream and downstream entry and upstream and downstream capacity. See also an unfolding simulation model of the original social welfare example at https://insightmaker.com/insight/1769 , based on a Welfare Program TANF case study, from the paper How Small System Dynamics Models Can Help the Policy Process. N. Ghaffarzadegan, J. Lyneis, GP Richardson. System Dynamics Review 27, 1 (2011) 22-44. An online conference paper is available at https://bit.ly/HlxtZj The model was created with AnyLogic - simulation software / Service Capacity Related Models |
