@article{Pegoraro_Costa Marques_Maciel Lima_Consolação Iuata Costa Rank_Gonçalves Faria de Bessa_Rocha Lopes_Poletto_Monteiro Gomes_Cibene Moreira Borges_Falcão de Sousa_Oliveira Coelho_Wanka Laus_2022, title={A Framework for emergency department management: a proposal based on process mining and simulation}, volume={85}, url={https://www.asrjetsjournal.org/index.php/American_Scientific_Journal/article/view/7246}, abstractNote={<p>An emergency department (ED) face random demands from patients with different needs, which may contribute to their overcrowding. therefore, the present study designed a framework to support decision making in ED management. The framework integrates simulation techniques supported by process mining. Simulation was used in this work because it contributes to capture the randomness and complexity of patient flow in the ED and support the decision-making process. However, the data to feed a simulation model is usually collected manually from the time between patient arrivals in the ED, time for triage, interviews with experts, among others. Nevertheless, use only these collection techniques may be error-induced because they are based on human perceptions, as well as they are long. In this sense, process mining contributed to the construction of the studied ED simulation model through the discovery of the real process and the historical data of the patients registered in the event <em>log</em>. Through process mining, little conceptual modeling effort was used for the simulation model, which may contribute to encouraging the use of simulation in hospital environments.</p>}, number={1}, journal={American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences}, author={Pegoraro, Fábio and Costa Marques, Ana Caroline and Maciel Lima, Geovana and Consolação Iuata Costa Rank, Rise and Gonçalves Faria de Bessa, Nelita and Rocha Lopes, Francicero and Poletto, Karine and Monteiro Gomes, Samara Tatielle and Cibene Moreira Borges, Jaqueline and Falcão de Sousa, Sara and Oliveira Coelho, Renata and Wanka Laus, Fernanda}, year={2022}, month={Jan.}, pages={223–234} }