. Based on this forecasting, a logic for managing hospital capacity was designed and implemented. This logic includes the … comparison between the forecasted demand and the available medical resources and a stochastic simulation model to assess the … performance of different configurations of facilities and resources. The logic also provides hospital managers with a decision …

We assess the performance of three hospital merger simulation methods by means of a Monte Carlo experiment. We first … specify a rich theoretical model of hospital markets and use it to generate “true” price effects of a large number of hospital … analysis and apply the merger simulation methods to those data. Finally, we compare the predictions of the merger simulation …