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. 2020 Sep 14;2(9):e0174. doi: 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000174

Table 1.

Validation Results From the Simul8 (SIMUL8 Corp) Model

Model Results Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre Data Results
Average number entering system 2,650 2,650
Average number discharged within 4 hr 975 973
Average number of delayed transfer of care patients 1,675 1,677
Average bed utilization, % 84.74 84.74
Percentage of time above 75% capacity, % 72.50 80.41
Percentage of time above 95% capacity, % 21.03 19.73
Average length of stay (d) 5.67 5.14

Simulation model was built from detailed patient flow description and data available for the two critical care units between 2016 and 2018. Model results are an average obtained over 30 independent random trials of our model, where each trial uses a different initial random seed to sample from the defined distributions.