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In this chapter, we describe plans for a simulation study to investigate the management of discharge planning in the context of cardiac surgical care. This chapter is similar to Chaps. 17 and 18 in focusing on the planning of the study rather than evaluating results. In particular, we will describe the study design and the plan of analysis for comparing two methods of planning discharge from hospital after surgery. We use the analytical framework of a simulation study, as described in Chap. 7, to discuss the modeling requirements, study and experimental factors, and patient attributes for such an experiment. We also discuss the information that will be reported, to help the reader understand the experimental outcomes and methods for estimating the effect size (see item 17 of Table 10.1).
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Sobolev, B., Sanchez, V., Kuramoto, L. (2012). Discharge Planning. In: Health Care Evaluation Using Computer Simulation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2233-4_19
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