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Victoria Brazil, Eve Purdy and Komal Bajaj explain how simulation can contribute to improving healthcare systems as well as training individual practitioners. Their account considers simulation as a way to investigate work, expose problems and test proposed changes in settings where experimentation during ordinary patient care may be difficult.
The book distinguishes several applications: exploring working environments, intervening to improve performance, testing changes to services or infrastructure, and helping professionals learn improvement methods. Examples show the range of possible techniques, from relatively simple role play to manikin-based exercises and computer models. The authors connect these activities to the questions an improvement project is trying to answer.
Attention is also given to planning, evaluation and the practical limits of the approach. The volume discusses the importance of working with the people and systems involved, rather than treating simulation equipment as an improvement in itself. Written for healthcare professionals and researchers, it provides a compact framework for deciding when simulation is useful and what evidence is needed to assess its contribution.
Victoria Brazil; Eve Purdy; Komal Bajaj. Simulation as an Improvement Technique. Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009338172. Licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; the unchanged original edition and its required notices are retained.
Copyright THIS Institute2023. Unchanged original edition, CC BY-NC-ND4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.